Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Ṣaghīr (no. 1156, al-Rawḍ) and al-Awsaṭ (no. 363), and al-Khaṭīb in al-Mūḍiḥ (2/28). Al-Ṭabarānī said: “This al-Ghāḍirī is Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān, Abū ʿUmar, the Quran reciter.”

I say: He is abandoned; therefore, reliance is upon the preceding route.

1933 — “The days were presented to me, and among them Friday was presented to me. It was like a white mirror, with a black spot at its centre. I said: ‘What is this?’ It was said: ‘The Hour.’”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (1/48/2), through Abū Sufyān al-Ḥimyarī: al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Ḥamrah narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Ḥumayd, from Anas ibn Mālik, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: “No one narrated it from Yazīd except al-Ḍaḥḥāk, and Abū Sufyān alone narrated it.”

I say: He is a middling truthful narrator, as stated in al-Taqrīb, and his name is Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥimyarī. The same applies to al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Ḥamrah: scholars differed concerning him, some declaring him trustworthy and others weakening him. Al-Tirmidhī graded his hadith good. Thus, the chain is good, if Allah Most High wills.

Al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (2/164): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ, and its narrators are among the narrators of the authentic collections, apart from al-Ṭabarānī’s shaykh, who is trustworthy.” That is what he said, but neither of the two Shaykhs narrated anything from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Ḥamrah. He and al-Mundhirī (1/248) cited it from Anas with a similar but more complete wording. Al-Haythamī said: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ, and its narrators are trustworthy.” Al-Mundhirī said: “...with a good chain of transmission.”