He narrated from Anas ibn Malik, and Ibn Awn narrated from him. He is not Humayd al-Tawil.” The same is stated in al-Bukhari’s Tarikh and al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil. Ibn Makula—and al-Hafiz followed him in al-Taqrib—said: “Unknown.”

I say: They overlooked the narration of this hadith from him by Atiyyah ibn al-Harith. If it is preserved, then although Atiyyah is truthful, Bishr ibn Khalid, who narrated from him, is unknown, as noted above. And Allah knows best.

2810 — “Our Lord—glorified and exalted is He—laughs at His servants’ despair and at how near a change in their circumstances is.” Abu Razin said, “Does the Lord laugh?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “We shall never be deprived of good from a Lord who laughs.”

Al-Tayalisi recorded it in his Musnad (1092): Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Yaʿla ibn Ata, from Wakiʿ ibn Adas, from Abu Razin, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said it.

Ahmad also recorded it through this route in al-Musnad (4/12) and in al-Sunnah (452, Dar Ibn al-Qayyim edition); Ibn Abi Asim in al-Sunnah (no. 554, in my critical edition); Ibn Majah in his Sunan (no. 281); Abdullah ibn Ahmad in Zawaʾid al-Sunnah (453); al-Daraqutni in al-Sifat (46/30, edited by Dr. al-Faqihi); al-Ajurri in al-Shariʿah (pp. 279 and 279–280); and al-Bayhaqi in al-Asmaʾ wa al-Sifat (p. 473)—all through al-Tayalisi, from Hammad ibn Salamah, through this chain.

I say: This chain of transmission is weak. Its narrators are trustworthy narrators of Muslim, apart from Wakiʿ ibn Adas, who is also said to be Hads, with an h in place of the ʿayn. Al-Dhahabi said in al-Mizan: