on the authority of Umm al-Tufayl, the wife of Ubayy ibn Ka‘b, who heard the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) relate that he had seen his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, in a dream, in the form of a young man with a full head of hair, His feet amid greenery, wearing a pair of gold sandals, with moths of gold upon His face.

Abū Zur‘ah said, “All these men are known and have well-established lineages in Medina. Marwān is Marwān ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Abī Sa‘īd ibn al-Mu‘allā al-Ansārī. ‘Umārah is the son of ‘Āmir ibn ‘Amr ibn Hazm, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). As for ‘Amr ibn al-Hārith and Sa‘īd ibn Abī Hilāl, there is no doubt about either of them. ‘Abd Allāh ibn Wahb needs no further commendation as a hadith transmitter, given his piety and merit.”’

The judge said, “The apparent import of Abū Zur‘ah’s words is to affirm the standing of the narrators of Umm al-Tufayl’s hadith, identify them, and attest to their uprightness.”

He continued, “This also appears to be the position of our scholars, for Abū Bakr al-Khallāl included Umm al-Tufayl’s hadith in his Sunan without raising any criticism of it. Abū Ishāq al-Barmakī showed me a fascicle containing accounts from