754—ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad informed us: ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād informed us: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: Wahb ibn Jarīr narrated to us: Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, that Rifāʿah al-Juhanī narrated to him.
755—ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad informed us: ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād informed us: al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd ibn Mazīd narrated to us: my father narrated to us, saying: I heard al-Awzāʿī say: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr narrated to me; Hilāl ibn Abī Maymūnah narrated to me; ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār narrated to me; Rifāʿah ibn ʿArābah al-Juhanī narrated to me, saying: “We departed from Mecca with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him,” and he related the hadith until he said: “Allah descends to the lowest heaven and says: ‘I ask none besides Myself concerning My servants. Who is there that asks Me, so that I may give him? Who is there that supplicates Me, so that I may answer him? Who is there that seeks My forgiveness, so that I may forgive him?’—until ⦗489⦘ dawn breaks.” The wording is that of the hadith narrated by al-ʿAbbās.