al-Qaṭṭān said that he changed toward the end of his life, whereas Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn maintained that he neither changed nor became confused; he is reliable and trustworthy. Abū Yaʿlā also related the report. I say: the chain of transmission is ḥasan.

Third proof-text: Sufyān narrated: ʿAmr told us, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding the Almighty’s words, “And We did not make the vision which We showed you except as a trial for mankind” (al-Isrāʾ 17:60). He said, “It was a waking vision that Allah showed the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, on the night he was taken by night to Jerusalem; it was not a dream.” He added concerning, “and the accursed tree in the Quran,” that it is the tree of zaqqūm.

Al-Bukhārī recorded it (3888, 4716, 6613); al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (3755); al-Tirmidhī (3134), who said, “a ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ”; Ibn Jarīr (15/110); and al-Ḥākim sought to supplement it (2/362–363)—both he and al-Dhahabī erred in that. Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it in al-Kabīr (11641).

Fourth: from Qatādah, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah: “The cousin of your Prophet—that is, Ibn ʿAbbās, may Allah be pleased with him—narrated to us from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that…”