by al-Tirmidhi (2/69), who also recorded it at (2/217), Abu Dawud (4742), al-Darimi (2/325), Ibn Hibban (2570), Ibn Abi al-Dunya in al-Ahwal (The Terrors; fol. 3/2), al-Hakim (2/436, 506; 4/560), Ahmad (2/162 and 192), and al-Tha'labi in his exegesis (2/25), through the route of Sulayman al-Taymi, from Aslam al-'Ijli, from Bishr ibn Shaghaf, from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As, who said: “A Bedouin came to the Prophet and asked, ‘What is the Trumpet?’ He said…”—then mentioned it.

Al-Tirmidhi said: “This is a good hadith. We know it only through the hadith of Sulayman al-Taymi.”

I say: He was trustworthy and devout, and among the narrators of the two shaykhs; those above him in the chain are trustworthy. For this reason, al-Hakim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

Imam Ahmad (2/192) said: Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us, from al-Taymi, from Aslam, from Abu Murayyah, from the Prophet—or from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr, from the Prophet—who said: “The two who will blow are in the second heaven. The head of one of them is in the east and his feet are in the west—or, he said, the head of one of them is in the west and his feet are in the east—awaiting the command to blow the Trumpet; then they will blow.”

Al-Haythami said in al-Majma' (10/330): “Ahmad narrated it with uncertainty. If it is from Abu Murayyah, then it is mursal, and its narrators are trustworthy; but if it is from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr, then it has a continuous chain to the Prophet, and its narrators are trustworthy.”

That is what he said. Yet this Abu Murayyah is unknown. Al-Hafiz mentioned him in al-Ta'jil through this narration of Ahmad, without citing any criticism or accreditation of him. Perhaps Ibn Hibban mentioned him in al-Thiqat; this should be checked, for I do not presently have access to it.

1081 — “Whoever wishes to look upon the Day of Resurrection as though seeing it with his own eyes