Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Hamdani informed us; Akmal ibn Abi al-Azhar informed us; Saʿid ibn Ahmad informed us; Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Zaynabi informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Warraq informed us; Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud informed us; and Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Bashshar together with Nasr ibn ʿAli narrated to us. They said:
Abu ʿAbd al-Samad al-ʿAmmi related to us; he said: Abu ʿImran al-Jawni related to us, from Abu Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays, from his father, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “There are two gardens of gold—both their vessels and whatever they contain—and two gardens of silver—both their vessels and whatever they contain. Nothing will keep the people from beholding their Lord except the mantle of Majesty over His Face, in the Garden of Eden.”
Muslim (1) included this report on the authority of both narrators, while al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa’i, and Ibn Majah transmitted it through Ibn Bashshar.
- al-Hiql ibn Ziyad, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Dimashqi (M, 4)
The imam and legal authority, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Dimashqi, was the scribe and student of al-Awzaʿi.
He narrated from Hisham ibn Hassan, al-Muthanna ibn al-Sabbah, Talhah ibn ʿAmr al-Makki, Hariz ibn ʿUthman, al-Awzaʿi, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Layth ibn Saʿd—who was older than he—and Abu Salih, the scribe of al-Layth,