Al-Manāwī said in al-Fayḍ: “Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it. Al-Haythamī said: ‘It contains Abū Saʿīd al-Ghifārī, from whom no one besides Ḥumayd ibn Hāniʾ narrated; its narrators have been declared reliable.’ Ibn Abī al-Dunyā likewise narrated it in Censure of Envy. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī said: ‘Its chain of transmission is good.’”

I say: Khallād ibn Sulaymān also narrated from him, as mentioned above, so his anonymity as an individual narrator has been removed. Moreover, he was a Successor, and a number of hadith masters would consider the hadith of one like him sound. It is therefore no wonder that al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī graded its chain of transmission as good. This is the conclusion to which my heart has opened and in which my soul finds reassurance. Thus, the hadith is one of the signs of his Prophethood—peace and blessings be upon him and his family.

681 — “Travel by night, for the earth is folded up at night.”

It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (2571) and al-Ḥākim (2/114), and from him by al-Bayhaqī (5/256), through the route of Khālid ibn Yazīd, who said: Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī narrated to us from al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said it. Al-Ḥākim cited it as corroboration for the route to follow and said: “Provided that it is free of Khālid ibn Yazīd al-ʿUmarī.” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him.

I say: This is how the name “al-ʿUmarī” appears in his text, but it does not occur in Abū Dāwūd’s version, and I do not consider it preserved. For al-ʿUmarī was not narrated from by Abū Dāwūd or any of the other six compilers, and he was accused of lying. Rather, he is Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Azdī al-ʿAtakī, also called al-Haddādī, who was truthful but prone to error, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī is weak because of his poor memory.