ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād related to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī narrated to us; Muʿādh al-ʿAnbarī narrated to us; Ḥumayd narrated from Anas, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I entered Paradise, and there I beheld a river flowing, its banks lined with pearl pavilions. I dipped my hand into the water running through it, and it was pure, fragrant musk. I asked, ‘What is this, O Gabriel?’ He replied, ‘This is al-Kawthar which Allah has granted you.’”
17 – Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Khawlānī * (ʿ)
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and jurist; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Khawlānī, the Ḥimṣī, known as al-Abrash, the secretary of al-Zubaydī.
He narrated from: Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Alhānī, Baḥīr ibn Saʿd, ʿUmar ibn Ruʾbah, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī, Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, al-Awzāʿī, and others.
Narrators from him include: Abū Mushir, Muḥammad ibn Wahb ibn ʿAṭiyyah, and Isḥāq ibn
(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Al-Bukhari reported it through several routes from Anas (8/562) in his commentary on the surah “Inna a‘taynak al-kawthar” and, in the section on Heart-Softening Traditions, Chapter “The Basin” (11/412). Muslim also recorded it (no. 400) in the Book of Prayer, Chapter “The Argument of those who hold that the basmala is a verse at the beginning of every surah.” It likewise appears in al-Tirmidhi (no. 3375) in Tafsir, Chapter on “Inna a‘taynak al-kawthar”; in Abu Dawud (nos. 4747–4748) in the Book of Sunna, Chapter on the Basin; and in al-Nasa’i (2/133–134) in the chapter on the recitation of “Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim.”
(*) See: Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqat, 7/470; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 3051; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir, 1/69, and al-Tarikh al-saghir, 2/275; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-ta‘dil, 7/237; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, fol. 1185; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 3/196/2; al-Dhahabi, al-‘Ibar, 1/351; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 1/310; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 3/31; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 9/109; al-Nuwayri, al-Nujum al-zahirah, 2/146; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-huffaz, p. 128; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat tadhhib al-kamal, p. 332; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab, 1/341.