And this chain is sound (ḥasan). Ibn Lahīʿah is only deemed problematic when he narrates on his own, because of his poor memory; in and of himself he is trustworthy, and in this report he has been corroborated. After citing the ḥadīth, al-Haythamī said:
“It was related by Aḥmad and by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr. The transmitters in al-Ṭabarānī’s chain are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ, while Aḥmad’s chain contains Ibn Lahīʿah.”

Al-Mundhirī added:
“It was narrated by Aḥmad with a sound chain, by al-Ṭabarānī, and by Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ.”

Apparently Ibn Ḥibbān also recorded it through a route other than that of Ibn Lahīʿah, for he judges Ibn Lahīʿah to be weak. He said of him:
“I examined his reports as transmitted by the earlier and later narrators. I found confusion in the narrations of the later transmitters and many reports among the earlier transmitters that had no basis. On closer inspection I realized that he used to practice tadlīs, transmitting from weak narrators while naming others whom he considered reliable, thereby attaching those fabricated reports to them.”

It is also likely that al-Ṭabarānī cited the ḥadīth through a chain other than that of Ḥuyay ibn ʿAbd Allāh, for this narrator is not among the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ, whereas al-Haythamī remarks of al-Ṭabarānī’s transmitters, “They are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ,” without exception. Allah knows best.

(d) “Whoever walks through the darkness of night to the mosque will meet Allah with light on the Day of Resurrection.”

Al-Mundhirī cited it, tracing it back to Abū al-Dardāʾ, and said: