al-Shāmī: “I asked him—meaning Ahmad—about a hadith narrated by Ibn Wahb, from ‘Amr ibn al-Hārith, from Sa‘īd ibn Abī Hilāl, who reported that Marwān ibn ‘Uthmān had narrated to him, from ‘Umārah, from Umm al-Tufayl, the wife of Ubayy ibn Ka‘b, who said, ‘I heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, mention that he had seen his Lord in a dream in the form of a young man with abundant hair, his feet amid greenery, wearing a pair of golden sandals, with golden moths upon his face.’ Ahmad then turned his face away from me and said, ‘This is a rejected hadith.’ He also said, ‘This man is not known; he is an unknown narrator’—meaning Marwān ibn ‘Uthmān.”’

Al-Qādī Abū Ya‘lā said, ‘The apparent implication of this is that Ahmad regarded Umm al-Tufayl’s hadith as weak.’

He said, ‘I saw in Abū Bakr al-Kabshī’s handwriting a statement by