to the Praised Station You have promised him), my intercession will be guaranteed to him on the Day of Resurrection.”

This ḥadith is narrated from Jābir ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī (may Allah be pleased with him).

Al-Bukhārī transmitted it—under the Qurʾān Commentary heading (1)—as did Aḥmad. Both of them said: “ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh related to us; Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah related to us, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from him.”

Abū Dāwūd (on the authority of Aḥmad), al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī—followed by Ibn al-Sunnī—, Ibn Mājah, al-Bayhaqī, and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr all record it through various routes from ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh with this same chain. The extra wording occurs in al-Bayhaqī’s version; according to al-Sakhāwī it is also affirmed in al-Kushmihānī’s recension of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, yet in my judgment it is anomalous.

Al-Ṭaḥāwī likewise reported it, treating it as the Prophet’s practice; he said: “Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard the muʾadhdhin he would say: ‘O Allah…’ ”

His chain runs as follows: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Dimashqī narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us,” transmitting the very same isnād. As you can see, this chain is identical to al-Bukhārī’s except for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Dimashqī—who is Abū Zurʿah, a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ—so the isnād is sound, yet the wording itself is anomalous.

In this rendition the phrase appears as “al-Maqām al-Maḥmūd” with the definite article; that is how it is worded in al-Nasāʾī, al-Ṭabarānī, and al-Bayhaqī, and it also occurs in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Ibn Khuzaymah and of Ibn Ḥibbān, as stated in Fatḥ al-Bārī. He said: