al-Mizzī’s Tahdhīb. Whether it was this one or that one, he is trustworthy. Yet it is possible that he was Hutam, who is described as a shaykh in Ibn Ḥibbān’s Thiqāt (4/193). Perhaps he is the one al-Haythamī meant when he said (10/126): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ, and its chain includes Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-Ḍarīr al-Madāʾinī, whom I do not know; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

I say: Al-Khaṭīb did know him, having included his biography and cited the transmission of a number of proficient hadith scholars from him, as was explained earlier in the preceding hadith. Thus, according to the possibility mentioned above, the chain is good—especially since it has another route through al-Musayyab ibn Wāḍiḥ: Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān related to us; Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl related to us, from Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah, from Khālid ibn al-Walīd, who complained to the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—saying: “I experience fear at night.” He said: “Shall I not teach you ...” the hadith in its entirety. It adds: “... and from the evil of what He has created in the earth and what comes forth from it, and from the evil of the trials of the night ...” and so on.

Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Kabīr (4/135/3838) and in al-Duʿāʾ (2/1307/1083), from two trustworthy shaykhs of his, who said: Al-Musayyab ibn Wāḍiḥ related to us. I say: The narrators in this chain are trustworthy apart from this al-Musayyab, who is weak. However, his weakness is due to his memory, so it may be used as corroborating evidence, particularly since he was supported by another route: al-Bayhaqī transmitted it in al-Dalāʾil (7/96), through Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah, with the same report. Its narrators are trustworthy apart from his shaykh and his shaykh’s shaykh: “Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās al-Zawzanī related to us; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khinb (!) related to us.” I do not know either of them.

Part of it is supported by a corroborating report transmitted by Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥibbān: Khālid ibn al-Walīd—may Allah be pleased with him—would suffer from insomnia, or was afflicted with sleeplessness, and he complained to the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—