Al-Tufayl ibn ‘Amr al-Dawsi and his companions came and said: “O Messenger of Allah, Daws has disobeyed and refused; so invoke Allah against them.” Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, raised his hands, and I said: “Daws is doomed!” But he said: “O Allah, guide Daws and bring them [to Islam].”

Ahmad recorded it (2/502): Yazid narrated to us: Muhammad ibn ‘Amr informed us, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, with this report. I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators relied upon by both al-Bukhari and Muslim, except that they recorded reports from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr—who is Ibn ‘Alqamah—only as supporting evidence and corroborations, owing to a slight weakness in him.

He was corroborated by Sufyan—namely Ibn ‘Uyaynah—who said: Abu al-Zinad narrated to us, from al-A‘raj, from Abu Hurayrah, with this report, except that in place of the mention of raising his hands, he said: “The people thought that he was supplicating against them.” Al-Bukhari recorded it (6397): ‘Ali narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us with this report.

Through this same chain, he also recorded it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (611), but added immediately before the phrase, “The people thought”: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, faced the qiblah and raised his hands.” ‘Ali—the shaykh of al-Bukhari, namely Ibn al-Madini—was corroborated regarding this addition. Ahmad (2/243) and al-Humaydi in his Musnad (1050) said: Sufyan narrated to us with this report. Al-Bayhaqi also recorded it in Dala’il al-Nubuwwah (5/359), through Sa‘dan ibn Nasr: Sufyan narrated to us with this report. He said: “Al-Bukhari narrated it in al-Sahih from ‘Ali ibn ‘Abdullah, from Sufyan!” This is what he said, by which he meant the basic hadith—a practice common to him in his books, including al-Sunan,