of scholars read the final r with a u-vowel. And Allah knows best.
The hadith has another chain, with a different wording: “Do not revile Time, for Allah, Exalted is He, said: ‘I am Time; the days and nights are Mine. I renew them and wear them away, and I bring kings after kings.’”
532 — “Do not revile Time, for Allah, Exalted is He, said: ‘I am Time: the days and nights are Mine. I renew them and wear them away, and I bring kings after kings.’”
Imam Ahmad recorded it (2/496): Ibn Numayr narrated to us; Hisham ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Dhakwan, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said it.
I say: This is a good chain of transmission and meets Muslim’s criteria. Although some criticism has been made of Hisham ibn Saʿd, it does no harm. Al-Mundhiri attributed the hadith (3/290) to al-Bayhaqi alone, thereby falling short!
Al-Haythami said in al-Majmaʿ (8/71): “Ahmad narrated it, and all its narrators are narrators of the authentic collections.”
533 — “When my Lord, Exalted is He, took me up, I passed by people with fingernails of copper, scratching their faces and chests. I asked, ‘Who are these, O Gabriel?’ He replied, ‘They are those who consume the flesh of people and assail their honor.’”
Imam Ahmad recorded it (3/224): Abu al-Mughirah narrated to us; Safwan narrated to us; Rashid ibn Saʿd and ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Jubayr narrated to me, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said it. He then cited it.
Abu Dawud also recorded it (4878): Ibn al-Musaffa narrated to us; Baqiyyah and Abu al-Mughirah both said: Safwan narrated to us with it. Abu Dawud said: Yahya ibn ʿUthman narrated it to us from Baqiyyah, without mentioning Anas in it. ʿIsa ibn Abi ʿIsa al-Sulayhini narrated it to us from Abu al-Mughirah as Ibn al-Musaffa reported it.
I say: The connected version through Baqiyyah is the correct one, since it is the version narrated by the majority from him and because it agrees with Abu al-Mughirah’s narration. He is more reliable than Baqiyyah, and his name is ʿAbd al-Quddus ibn al-Hajjaj al-Khawlani.