may Allah bless him and grant him peace:
“I saw my Lord in the form of a beardless youth with ear-length, tightly curled hair, in a green meadow.”
As for the hadith concerning the dispute of the Highest Assembly, al-Khallāl, Ibn Khuzaymah and others narrated it through well-known chains of transmission from al-Walīd ibn Muslim: Abd al-Rahmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir narrated to me, from Khālid ibn al-Lajlāj, from Abd al-Rahmān ibn Ā’ish al-Hadramī, who said: I heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say:
“I saw my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, in the most beautiful form. He said, ‘What is the Highest Assembly disputing about, O Muhammad?’ I replied, ‘You know best, my Lord.’ Then He said, ‘What is the Highest Assembly disputing about, O Muhammad?’ I replied: