And among what they sing:

“We are everlasting and shall never die;
We are secure and shall never fear;
We are abiding and shall never depart.”

Al-Tabarani transmitted it in al-Saghir and al-Awsat (no. 5049), and through him Abu Nu'aym transmitted it in The Description of Paradise (fol. 59/1–2); likewise al-Wahidi transmitted it in al-Wasit (1/11/1). Its narrators are reliable, all being narrators of the Six Collections, apart from al-Tabarani’s shaykh, Abu Rifa'ah 'Umarah ibn Wathimah al-Misri. As I mentioned in al-Rawd, I have not found a biographical entry for him—contrary to what the unqualified statements of al-Mundhiri and al-Haythami may suggest.

Among the Etiquettes of Seeking Permission to Enter

3003—“Whenever he came to a door to seek permission to enter, he would not face it directly. He would move alongside the wall until he sought permission; he would then either be granted permission or depart.”

Imam Ahmad (4/189–190) and his son 'Abdullah (4/189–190) transmitted it. He said: My father narrated to me: al-Hakam ibn Musa narrated to us—'Abdullah said, “I myself heard it from al-Hakam”—who said: Baqiyyah narrated to us and said: Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Yahsabi narrated to me, saying: I heard 'Abdullah ibn Busr, the Companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say ... and he related it.

Al-Bukhari transmitted it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (1078), and Abu Dawud (5186), through other routes from Baqiyyah, with the same chain of transmission.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All its narrators are reliable, and Baqiyyah explicitly stated that he had received the report directly. Nor is it undermined by Ibn Hibban’s statement in al-Thiqat concerning this al-Yahsabi: