I say: ʿAṭiyyah is weak. Yet al-Haythamī said (10/213): “Al-Bazzār reported it, and its chain of transmission is good.” That is what he said. However, upon consulting al-Haythamī’s Zawāʾid al-Bazzār (4/85/3256), it becomes clear that al-Bazzār narrated it through al-Ḥajjāj, from ʿAṭiyyah himself—despite the fact that al-Ḥajjāj, namely Ibn Arṭāʾah, practised tadlīs. Nevertheless, al-Aʿẓamī passed over this without comment in his notes on the Zawāʾid. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā also narrated something similar through Qatādah as a mursal report. I say: The hadith is good, and Allah knows best.

2168 — “If you knew what Allah has stored up for you, you would not grieve over what has been withheld from you; and Persia and Byzantium shall surely be opened for you.”

Aḥmad (4/128) and Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (2/14) narrated it through Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Ḍamḍam ibn Zurʿah, from Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd, who said: Al-ʿIrbāḍ ibn Sāriyah said: “The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would come out to us at al-Suffah (the covered platform), while we were wearing Hawtakiyyah garments, and say:” He then mentioned it.

I say: Its Syrian chain of transmission is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy. There is some minor criticism of Ḍamḍam, but it is not detrimental, and a number of scholars deemed him trustworthy, as stated previously (2/144). Shurayḥ heard from Muʿāwiyah, as al-Bukhārī stated; and Muʿāwiyah died more than ten years before al-ʿIrbāḍ. Al-Haythamī said of the hadith (10/261): “Aḥmad reported it, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy.” Al-Manāwī cited this in al-Fayḍ, then followed it with the words: