Al-Dhahabī concurred with him, and in fairness the two of them should have added, “according to al-Bukhārī’s criteria,” for every narrator in the chain is found in both Ṣaḥīḥ collections except the man who transmits it from ʿAbd al-Razzāq—Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar al-Bukhārī—who is one of al-Bukhārī’s own teachers.

Even so, one hesitates before declaring the chain sound, because Abū Qilābah was described as a mudallis (a transmitter who sometimes concealed an intermediary) and he relates the report with ʿanʿanah—that is, with the ambiguous formula “from.” If it is established that he actually heard it from Anas, then the chain is authentic; if not, it is not.

In any case the ḥadīth itself is authentic. A supporting narration for its latter half was cited a moment ago, and its first half too has a corroborant report that states:

“A dream is suspended from the leg of a bird so long as it is not interpreted; once it is interpreted it comes to pass. (The narrator added, ‘I think he also said:) It should only be related to someone who loves the dreamer or to a person of sound judgment.’”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh (4/2/178); Abū Dāwūd (5020); al-Tirmidhī (2/45); al-Dārimī (2/126); Ibn Mājah (3914); al-Ḥākim (4/390); al-Ṭayālisī (1088); Aḥmad (4/10–13); Ibn Abī Shaybah (12/189/1); al-Ṭaḥāwī in Mushkil al-Āthār (1/295); and Ibn ʿAsākir (11/219/2) through Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, who said, “I heard Wakīʿ ibn ʿAddas narrate from his uncle Abū Razīn al-ʿUqaylī that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,” and then he mentioned the words above.

Al-Tirmidhī commented, “A ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.” Al-Ḥākim declared, “Its chain is sound,” and al-Dhahabī agreed.

Al-Manāwī, in al-Fayḍ, cites the author of al-Iqtirāḥ as saying, “Its chain meets Muslim’s criteria!” All of these verdicts are mistaken—especially the last—for Wakīʿ ibn ʿAddas is not a narrator from whom Muslim transmitted.