Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah and Zaynab bint Kindi informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad al-Saʿidi informed us; Zahir ibn Tahir informed us; Abu Saʿd al-Kanjarudhī informed us—in the year 452 AH; Abu ʿAmr Muhammad ibn Abi Jaʿfar informed us; Abu Yaʿla al-Mawṣilī informed us; Ibrahim ibn al-Hajjaj narrated to us; Wuhaib related to us, from Ismaʿil ibn Umayyah, Yahya ibn Saʿid, and ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Ḥibbān, from his uncle Wasiʿ ibn Ḥibbān, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
“I climbed onto the roof of Ḥafṣah’s house and, to my surprise, I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sitting on his cushion, facing the qiblah with Syria behind him.⦗1⦘”
Ibn Hibat Allah also informed us, through Abu Ruh; Tamim ibn Abi Saʿid informed us; al-Kanjarudhī transmitted this very narration.
Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad informed us; Zahir ibn Tahir informed us; Abu Yaʿla Ishaq ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Ṣabūnī informed us; Abu Saʿid ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Razi informed us; Muhammad ibn Ayyub al-Bajali al-Razi told us; ʿAbd al-Aʿla ibn Hammad told us; Wuhaib narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar related to us, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once said to his Companions, “Tell me about a tree that resembles the Muslim: its leaves never fall, and it yields its fruit at all times by permission…”