the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) came out one morning in good spirits, his face radiant. We spoke to him, and he replied, “What could trouble me, when my Lord came to me last night in the most beautiful form?”—and he related the remainder of the hadith.

The hadith master Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mandah said: This is how Zuhayr narrated it from Yazīd ibn Yazīd, including an additional man from among the Companions of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) in the chain of transmission. Al-Awzā‘ī, ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Jābir, and others narrated it from Khālid ibn al-Lajlāj without mentioning that man in the chain.

Muhammad ibn Ja‘far ibn Yūsuf and Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān narrated to us. They both said: Al-‘Abbās ibn al-Walīd ibn Mazyad narrated to us: