All of this is one of the baneful consequences of turning away from the Sunnah and shunning the path of the early generations and the ḥadīth Imams. May Allah gather us in their ranks beneath the banner of Muḥammad ﷺ.

84 – It is related in the two Ṣaḥīḥs that the Prophet ﷺ prayed for certain people, saying:

“May the righteous eat your food, may those who are fasting break their fast with you, may the angels invoke blessings upon you, and may Allah remember you among those who are with Him.”

Allah the Exalted says, “Indeed, those who are with your Lord are not too proud to worship Him” and He says, “To Him belongs all who are in the heavens and the earth, and those who are with Him are not too proud to worship Him.” In Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Abū Hurayrah reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Adam and Moses disputed in the presence of their Lord …,” and he mentioned the rest of the narration.

73 – This ḥadīth is authentic, but the final addition, “and may Allah remember you among those who are with Him,” is not part of it, nor, in fact, is the ḥadīth itself found in the two Ṣaḥīḥs, as I pointed out in my book The Etiquette of Wedding, pp. 85–86 (Islamic Office, 3rd edition). Its documentation is given there in a manner you will not find elsewhere; praise be to Allah for His enabling grace.

I add here that the quoted addition appears in another ḥadīth narrated by Abū Hurayrah from the Prophet ﷺ in the wording:

“No people gather in one of Allah’s houses, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it together, except that tranquility descends upon them, mercy envelops them, the angels surround them, and Allah mentions them among those who are with Him.”

It was transmitted by Aḥmad, Muslim, and others, and is traced in my Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd, no. 1308. It seems the author inadvertently merged one ḥadīth with another.

74 – I say: this report has a great many chains. Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim collected a large number of them in al-Sunnah and devoted a separate chapter to it, yet in most of them the key phrase relevant here—“in the presence of their Lord”—does not appear. See ḥadīth 156 and ḥadīths 137–160 in my edition of Takhrīj al-Sunnah.

85 – The ḥadīth of Abū Mūsā (may Allah be pleased with him) states: “The kursī (footstool) is the place of the two Feet, and it creaks like a camel saddle.” Al-Bayhaqī recorded it in his book al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt.