Then another man came forward and asked, “Am I among them as well?” He replied, “ʿUkāsha has already outstripped you.”

Al-Tirmidhi recorded it (2446), saying: “Abū Ḥuṣayn ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Yūnus narrated to us; Abthar b. al-Qāsim informed us …,” and he ruled, “This is a ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: The isnād is sound; its transmitters are trustworthy and belong to the narrators accepted by the two Shaykhs, apart from this Abū Ḥuṣayn—and he is reliable. It appears, however, that either he or his teacher Abthar slipped when they inserted mention of the Night Journey (israʾ) in this report, for several reliable transmitters have related it from Ḥuṣayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān without any reference to the Night Journey.

Al-Bukhārī also recorded it (3410, 5705, 5752, 6472, 6541), as did Muslim (374, 375) and Aḥmad (1/271).

Al-Ḥāfiẓ pointed out the irregularity (shudhūdh) of this additional phrase: after citing the versions of al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasāʾī he said, “If it is reliably preserved, it would strengthen the view that the Night Journey occurred more than once, and that one of them took place in Madinah in addition to the one that occurred in Mecca, for it is reported by Aḥmad and al-Bazzār with a sound chain that he said:”