Saʿid ibn Ayyub, from Abu ʿAqil Zuhrah ibn Maʿbad al-Qurashi, from Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Hubuli, from Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, who said: He attributed it to the Prophet.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs. Rushdayn ibn Saʿd also corroborated it from Zuhrah ibn Maʿbad. Al-Tabarani related it. Rushdayn is weak on account of his poor retention, despite his righteousness and devotion.

706 — “Indeed, Allah will resurrect the days on the Day of Resurrection in their forms, and He will resurrect Friday radiant and luminous. Its people will surround it as a bride is escorted to her noble groom. It will illuminate them, and they will walk in its light. Their complexion will be as white as snow, and their scent will waft like musk. They will pass through mountains of camphor, while the two weighty classes gaze at them in astonishment until they enter Paradise. None will mingle with them except the muezzins who seek Allah’s reward.”

Ibn Khuzaymah related it in his Sahih (1/182/1), as did al-Hakim (1/277), through two routes from al-Haytham ibn Humayd, who said: Abu Maʿbad—namely, Hafs ibn Ghaylan—informed me, from Tawus, from Abu Musa al-Ashʿari, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy. Al-Hakim said: “This is an anomalous hadith with an authentic chain of transmission, for Abu Maʿbad is among the trustworthy Syrian narrators whose hadiths are compiled, and al-Haytham ibn Humayd is one of the leading scholars of Syria.” Al-Dhahabi concurred with him.

I say: The characterization of this hadith, whose chain of transmission is authentic, as anomalous is merely a technical usage peculiar to