Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān informed us, saying: Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us: Hadhbah ibn Khālid narrated to us: Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“On the night I was taken on the Night Journey I passed by a delightful fragrance, so I asked, ‘What is this scent, O Gabriel?’ He replied, ‘It is the hairdresser of Pharaoh’s daughter. While she was combing her hair, the comb fell from her hand and she said, “In the name of Allah.” Pharaoh’s daughter exclaimed, “You mean my father?” She answered, “My Lord and your father’s Lord is Allah.” The girl said, “I shall tell him.” She replied, “Tell him.” Pharaoh then confronted her, saying, ‘Do you have a lord other than me?’ She said, ‘My Lord and yours is the One who is in the heaven.’ He thereupon ordered that a copper bull be heated for her.

“She said, ‘I have a request of you.’ He asked, ‘What is it?’ She said, ‘That you place my bones and the bones of my children together in one place.’ He replied, ‘That is a right we owe you.’ He then cast her children into the (burning) bull, one after another, until the last was an infant who spoke and said, ‘Mother, be steadfast, for you are upon the truth.’ ”

Ibn ʿAbbās added, “Four infants spoke while still in the cradle: the child of Pharaoh’s hairdresser, the child in the story of Jurayj, Jesus son of Mary, and a fourth whom I do not recall.”

This hadith is judged fair (ḥasan).

Ibn Saʿd said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar related to us, from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Sabrah and others; they said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to beseech his Lord to show him Paradise and Hell. On the night of Saturday, the seventeenth of Ramadan, eighteen months before the Hijrah, while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asleep in his house, Gabriel came to him with the miʿrāj, the most splendid sight imaginable. He ascended with him through the heavens, one heaven after another, where he met the prophets, until he reached the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary (Sidrat al-Muntahā).