from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, who attributed it to the Prophet, and cited it.

I say: This chain of transmission is weak, for Layth—namely, Ibn Abi Sulaym—had become confused in his narrations. However, the hadith is authentic, as it has supporting evidence in a similar report from Jabir, attributed to the Prophet, recorded by the two Shaykhs and others. Its wording has already preceded under no. (40).

1367 — “When a man visits his Muslim brother during illness, he goes on gathering the fruits of Paradise until he sits down. Once he sits, mercy envelops him. If he visits in the morning, seventy thousand angels invoke blessings upon him until evening; and if he visits in the evening, seventy thousand angels invoke blessings upon him until morning.”

Ahmad (1/81), Abu Dawud (3099), Ibn Majah (1/440), al-Hakim (1/349), Abu Ya'la in his Musnad (77), and al-Bayhaqi (3/380) recorded it from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, who said: “Abu Musa came to visit al-Hasan ibn Ali during his illness. Ali said to him: ‘Have you come as a visitor, or as one gloating?’ He replied: ‘No, rather, I have come as a visitor.’ Ali then said to him: ‘If you have come as a visitor, then I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say…’” He then cited it.

Al-Hakim said: “An authentic hadith according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him, and it is as they said. Al-Hakim and then al-Bayhaqi mentioned that it has a hidden defect in its chain of transmission, but the former explicitly stated that it does not impair its authenticity. That appears to be correct, and Allah knows best—especially since Abu Dawud said immediately afterward: “This has been narrated with a continuous chain from Ali, from the Prophet, through more than one authentic route.”

I say: Among these routes is not what al-Tirmidhi recorded (1/181) through Thuwayr Abu Fakhitah, from his father, who said: