than that? He will say: ‘My good pleasure with you; I shall never be displeased with you.’

It was recorded by Abd al-Razzaq in al-Musannaf (11/409–411): Ma‘mar informed us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Ata ibn Yasar, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said … and he cited it.

Through Abd al-Razzaq, it was also recorded by Ahmad (3/94), al-Nasa’i (2/270), Ibn Majah (no. 60), al-Tirmidhi (2598), in abridged form, Ibn Khuzaymah in Oneness of God (pp. 184, 201, and 212), and Ibn Nasr al-Marwazi in Exalting the Status of Prayer (no. 276).

Muhammad ibn Thawr also corroborated Ma‘mar in narrating it, but he did not give its wording; rather, he merely said, “Something similar to it”—that is, the hadith of Hisham ibn Sa‘d, whose sources will be cited below. It was recorded by Abu ‘Awanah.

Sa‘id ibn Hilal also corroborated Zayd ibn Aslam in narrating it, in a more complete version. Its beginning is: “Do you crowd one another when seeing the sun and the moon? …” followed by the hadith in its entirety.

It was recorded by al-Bukhari (7439), Muslim (1/114–117), Ibn Khuzaymah as well (p. 201), and Ibn Hibban (7333, al-Ihsan).

Hafs ibn Maysarah narrated it from Zayd. It was recorded by Muslim (1/114–117), as well as al-Bukhari (4581), though he did not relate it in full; nor did Abu ‘Awanah (1/168–169).

Hisham ibn Sa‘d narrated it from him. It was recorded in full by Abu ‘Awanah (1/181–183), Ibn Khuzaymah (p. 200), and al-Hakim