and by al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī, and in Selections from It by Abu al-Fatḥ al-Juwaynī (74/2); and by Ibn ʿAsākir (11/423/1, 13/193/2, and 17/97/1), through ʿUmar ibn Yazīd al-Naṣrī, from Abu Salām, from Abu Umāmah, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy, except for ʿUmar ibn Yazīd al-Naṣrī, concerning whom there is disagreement, as I explained in The Weak Hadiths (3398). What appears to me, from the sum of what has been said about him, is that his hadiths are good; for Duḥaym and Abu Zurʿah al-Dimashqī both declared him trustworthy. Al-Haythamī said regarding the hadith (7/206): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it through two chains: in one of them is Bishr ibn Numayr, who is abandoned; and in the other is ʿUmar ibn Yazīd, who is weak.”

I say: His unqualified description of ʿUmar ibn Yazīd as weak, despite the declarations of trustworthiness we have cited, is clearly open to question. Then I saw al-Mundhirī say in al-Targhīb (3/221): “Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim narrated it in The Book of the Sunnah with a good chain.” Al-Ṭabarānī’s other chain (7938) is through Bishr ibn Numayr, from al-Qāsim, from Abu Umāmah, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “There are four at whom Allah will not look on the Day of Resurrection …” He then mentioned the three, adding: “and one addicted to wine.”

1786 — “It is the righteous dream which a servant sees, or which is seen for him.” That is, “the glad tidings in the life of this world.”

Al-Ṭabarī transmitted it in his Exegesis (11/95) through ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, from Abu Ṣāliḥ, who said: I heard Abu al-Dardāʾ—when he was asked about: “Those who believe and are mindful of Allah—for them are glad tidings in the life”