يا أيها الناسُ ! إنَّ ربَّكم واحدٌ، و إنَّ أباكم واحدٌ، ألا لا فضلَ لعربيٍّ على عجميٍّ، و لا لعجميٍّ على عربيٍّ، و لا لأحمرَ على أسودَ، و لا لأسودَ على أحمرَ إلا بالتقوى إنَّ أكرمَكم عند اللهِ أتقاكُم، ألا هل بلَّغتُ ؟ قالوا : بلى يا رسولَ اللهِ قال : فيُبَلِّغُ الشاهدُ الغائبَ
“O people! Your Lord is one, and your father is one. No Arab is above a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab above an Arab; no red above black, nor black above red, except by taqwa. The most honored of you with Allah is the most God-conscious. Have I conveyed the message? They said: Yes, Messenger of Allah. He said: Then let the present convey it to the absent.”Translated by Uswah draft, awaiting review
Al-Silsila al-Sahiha 2700
Narrator : Jabir ibn AbdullahGraded by : al-AlbaniRuling : its chain is sahih
How close it isVery close, and older, and wider. The declaration says men; the sermon opens with O people. And where one asserts equality as self-evident, the other gives it a ground, one Lord and one father, and keeps the one measure that still ranks anyone: taqwa.