was listening: Mu’ammal narrated to you: ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Abī Humayd narrated to us, from Abū al-Malīh, from Abū Hurayrah, who reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘I saw my Lord in a dream in the most beautiful form.’”

It is therefore more likely that the wording “Someone came to me” is a paraphrase by one of the narrators. He seems to have avoided the expression “my Lord,” either out of fear for himself or for the listener. There is no doubt that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used that expression, as its mass transmission through numerous chains establishes.

The hadith master Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mandah also transmitted this hadith among his selected reports on the divine attributes, in which he included no weak reports. He noted the widespread transmission of its various chains and the agreement of scholars in both East and West on conveying it. He transmitted it through the reports of Abū Hurayrah and Thawbān, and the reports of Ibn ‘Ā’ish, saying: Abū Khaythamah informed us: Muhammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn