that Abdullah ibn Sa'd al-Madani said: Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir informed us: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf related to me from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said:

“I saw in a dream that I was beneath a tree, and it was as though the tree was reciting Surah Sad. When it reached the prostration verse, it prostrated and, while prostrating, said: ‘O Allah, record for me through it a reward, remove through it a sin from me, bring about for me through it gratitude, and accept it from me as You accepted Your servant David’s prostration.’

“When morning came, I went to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and told him of this. He said, ‘Did you prostrate, Abu Sa'id?’ I replied, ‘No.’ He said, ‘You were more deserving of prostrating than the tree.’ The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then recited Surah Sad until he reached the prostration verse, and in his prostration said what the tree had said in its prostration.”

Al-Tabarani then said—this is his wording: “It is narrated from Abu Sa'id only through this chain of transmission; al-Yaman ibn Nasr alone narrated it.”

I say: Al-Haythami deemed it defective because of him, saying (2/285): “Al-Dhahabi said: ‘Unknown.’” I say: In this, he followed Ibn Abi Hatim, who reported it from his father (4/2/311). However, al-Hafiz said in al-Lisan: “Ibn Hibban mentioned him in al-Thiqat, saying: ‘Al-Ka'bi, a native of Basra, narrates from a shaykh from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir. Ya'qub ibn Sufyan narrated from him.’ Ibn Abi Hatim also mentioned Muhammad ibn Marzuq and al-Jarrah ibn Mulayh among those who narrated from him.”

I say: Ibn Abi Hatim makes no mention of this al-Jarrah. Allah knows best. Amr ibn Ali also narrated this hadith from him in an extremely abbreviated form in al-Bukhari’s Tarikh (1/1/147).