This ḥadith establishes the lawfulness of kindling lamps in the mosques to illuminate them, and at the very least it recommends the practice. Abū Dāwūd—as well as al-Bayhaqī—gave it the heading:
“Chapter: Lamps in the Mosques.”

Ibn Mājah (1/356) also recorded, through the chain of Khālid ibn Iyās → Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥāṭib → Abū Saʿīd al-Khuḍrī, who said: “The first person to light lamps in the mosques was Tamīm al-Dārī.”

Al-Būṣīrī comments in al-Zawāʾid: “The report is mawqūf, and in its chain is Khālid ibn Iyās; the critics are unanimous that he is weak.”

A fuller version appears in Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī (12/274):
“Said ibn Zabban narrated: ‘My father told me, from his father, from his grandfather, from Abū Hind (may Allah be pleased with him): Tamīm—meaning al-Dārī—brought from Syria to Madinah lanterns, oil, and cords. When he reached the city, it happened to be Thursday night. He ordered a servant called Abū al-Bazzād to cut the cords, hang up the lanterns, fill them with water and oil, and place the wicks. After sunset he told Abū al-Bazzād to light them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to the mosque and found it gleaming. He asked, “Who has done this?” They replied, “Tamīm al-Dārī, Messenger of Allah.” He said, “You have illuminated Islam; may Allah illumine you in this world and the Hereafter. Had I a daughter, I would have married her to you.” Naufal ibn al-Ḥārith then said, “Messenger of Allah, I have a daughter named al-Mughīrah bint Naufal—do with her as you will.” So he married her to him.’ ”

Zabban (with a fathah on the zāʾ and a doubled letter, written with a single dot beneath) is unique in bearing this name.