and it is not among the hadiths transmitted by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, as he claimed. Rather, Muslim alone transmitted it, through ‘Amr ibn Murra, from Abū ‘Ubayda ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd, from Abū Mūsā, who said:

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, stood among us and made five statements, saying: “Allah does not sleep, nor does it befit Him to sleep. He lowers and raises the balance. The deeds of the night are raised to Him before the deeds of the day, and the deeds of the day before the deeds of the night. His veil is light—in another narration, fire. Were He to remove it, the splendours of His Face would burn everything in His creation that His sight reaches.”

Ibn Khuzayma also cited Abū Mu‘āwiya’s narration from