All of them affirm the truthfulness of the dream. Thus, the second wording is closer to being sound in meaning, for in this respect it is like the previously cited hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās and Anas: “he has indeed seen me.” More emphatic than this is the hadith of Abu Saʿīd al-Khudrī, worded: “he has indeed seen me in truth.” Al-Bukhari (6997) and Ahmad (3/55) recorded it, and Ibn Hibban (6019 and 6020) also narrated it from Abu Hurayrah.

2730 — “Had you gone to the people of ʿUmān, they would neither have insulted you nor beaten you.”

Muslim (7/190), Ibn Hibban (2314, Mawārid), Ahmad (4/420, 423, and 424)—the wording is his—and al-Rūyānī in his Musnad (30/19/1) recorded it through several routes from Mahdī ibn Maymūn, who said: Abu al-Wāziʿ [Jābir ibn ʿAmr al-Rāsibī] narrated to us: I heard Abu Barzah say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent an envoy to an Arab clan on some matter—Mahdī did not know what it was. He said: They insulted and beat him, so he complained of this to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who then said the above.

ʿUmān—with a ḍammah on the ʿayn and an ungeminated mīm—is a city in Bahrain, as al-Nawawī stated. The hadith has also been narrated in another, similar wording concerning an Arab clan in ʿUmān, but through a different chain containing a break. A third wording, differing from these two, mentions the merit of making the pilgrimage from there; it too is weak. I therefore included both of them in al-Ḍaʿīfah (5173 and 5174).