ibn Malik, who reported that Anas ibn Malik attributed it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Al-Bukhari did not mention any criticism or accreditation concerning this Awn, nor did Ibn Abi Hatim (3/1/386). He may be included in Ibn Hibban’s al-Thiqat (Reliable Narrators), but I do not presently have access to it. (1) I believe that al-Haythami alluded to Ibn Hibban’s accreditation of him when he said in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (10/419):

“Al-Tabarani transmitted it in al-Awsat, and its narrators have been declared reliable.”

The son of Anas—may Allah be pleased with him—was not named.

Note: Al-Tabarani mentioned that al-Hasan ibn Dawud al-Munkadari was alone in transmitting it from Ibn Abi Fudayk. This, however, was only according to the extent of his knowledge; otherwise, it is transmitted by others through routes other than his from Ibn Abi Fudayk, as I indicated in my preceding words: “through several routes.”

Abu Nuʿaym also transmitted it, and through him al-Diya al-Maqdisi transmitted it in The Description of Paradise (3/182); Ibn Abi al-Dunya likewise transmitted it, as cited in Guide of the Spirits to the Lands of Joy (2/4).

Moreover, the hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah ibn Umar, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Abu Umamah al-Bahili, and Abdullah ibn Abi Awfa. I cited them and discussed their chains of transmission in al-Rawd al-Nadir, no. 496. The strongest of them is the hadith of Ibn Umar, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording:

“Indeed, the wives of the people of Paradise will sing to their husbands in the most beautiful voices that anyone has ever heard. Among what they sing is:

‘We are the virtuous, beautiful women,
The wives of noble men,
Who gaze with eyes gladdened.’”