by Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Abī Ḥāmid al-Dīnawarī, in the year 620 AH in Baghdad, who said: My uncle Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥāmid narrated to us in the year 539 AH; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀṣimī narrated to us; Abū ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl al-Maḥāmilī narrated to us; Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us; Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah—that when the Prophet ﷺ came to Mecca he entered it from its upper side and departed from its lower side.
This report was transmitted by the Six Imams (1) except Ibn Mājah, through the route of Ibn al-Muthannā, and we have matched them with a loftier chain; praise belongs to Allah.
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah (2) informed us in Shaʿbān of the year 692 AH (3); ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī informed us; Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿd al-Jurjānī informed us; Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī informed us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān informed us; Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Bakkār narrated to us; Abū Maʿshar narrated, from Saʿīd, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “O ʿĀʾishah, had I wished, the mountains would have walked with me as masses of gold. An angel came to me whose waist-cloth (4) was as wide as the Kaʿbah …”