and singular through this chain.”

I say: Abū Bakr ibn Abī ‘Āsim also narrated this hadith in the Book of the Sunnah from this same teacher, just as al-Tirmidhī narrated it from him, through to its end. He said, “Muhammad has indeed seen his Lord twice,” adding, “There is further wording in it.” Ibn Abī ‘Āsim meant that the hadith contains additional wording. This is the wording referred to earlier, where he said, “He saw Him with a veil of pearls between them,” as we have mentioned. They would narrate this additional wording and sometimes omit it, as Ibn Khuzaymah, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Abī ‘Āsim omitted it.

Likewise, when Ibn Abī ‘Āsim narrated Shādhān’s hadith, he said, “We were told by