and as for the suggestion that the report is sometimes transmitted in a mawqūf form, it is nothing but an unsubstantiated claim. What he is actually pointing to is what al-Suyūṭī quotes—right after Muslim’s version—through the narrations of Abū Yaʿlá and al-Bayhaqī, from Anas who said: “Some of the Prophet’s Companions related to me that, on the night the Prophet ﷺ was taken on the Night Journey, he passed by Moses who was praying in his grave. They also told me that he was mounted on the Burāq and that he said, ‘I tethered the horse—or, he said, the mount—at the ring.’(1) Abū Bakr then said, ‘Describe it to me, O Messenger of Allah.’ He replied, ‘It is like this and this.’” He (Anas) added: “Abū Bakr had already seen it.”

I say: Because this narration begins with the words, “that the Prophet ﷺ, on the night he was taken on the Night Journey, passed …” the doctor imagined it to be mawqūf; yet nothing could be farther from the truth. It is unquestionably marfūʿ, even though Anas does not explicitly say, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,” for he is relating the Prophet’s own actions and descriptions—just like the ḥadiths on prohibitions, the Prophet’s physical features, and so forth. Would anyone claim that those are mawqūf?

Seventh and eighth: narrated by Rāshid ibn Saʿd and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When my Lord took me up to heaven I passed by a people whose fingernails were of copper …”