So I went back and said, “My Lord, lighten the burden upon my community.” Five prayers were taken off for me. I returned until I reached Moses and he asked, “What have you done?” I replied, “Five have been removed.” He said, “Your community will still not be able to bear that. Go back to your Lord and ask Him to ease it further for your community.” I kept going back and forth between my Lord and Moses until He said, “They are five prayers in every day and night; each prayer counts as ten, making them equal to fifty.”

Muslim transmitted this report, though without the words “then He drew near and descended”; those words are confirmed in the narration of Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl and are sound in the chain of Ḥammād ibn Salamah.

Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated from Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Namr that he heard Anas recount the story of the Night Journey, wherein he said: “He was taken up to the seventh heaven, then raised beyond that to a height known only to Allah, until he reached the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary. The Compeller, Lord of Might, drew near and descended until He was at a distance of two bow-lengths or even closer.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh through Sulaymān.

Shaybān narrated from Qatādah, from Abū l-ʿĀliyah, who said that Ibn ʿAbbās told them: the Prophet ﷺ said, “On the night I was taken on the Night Journey I saw Moses—tall, curly-haired, as though he were one of the men of Shanūʾah. I also saw Jesus of medium stature, reddish-white in complexion, with straight hair.” He added that the Prophet “saw Mālik, the keeper of Hell, and the Antichrist among the signs Allah showed him.” Concerning this Allah said, “So do not be in doubt about meeting him” (Q 32:23). Qatādah explained that the Prophet ﷺ indeed met Moses. Muslim recorded this narration.

In the two Ṣaḥīḥs, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, the Prophet ﷺ said when he was taken on the Night Journey: “I met Moses and Jesus—then…"