ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, who narrated from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that he stood one night in Mecca and said three times:

“O Allah, have I conveyed the message?”

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb stood and said, “O Allah, indeed he has; he gave sincere counsel and strove hard.” The following morning, he said:

“Faith will surely prevail until it drives disbelief back to its strongholds; the seas will surely be traversed in the cause of Islam; and there will certainly come upon people a time when they learn the Quran …”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (25/27–28). Al-Mundhirī said in al-Targhīb (1/80):

“Its chain of transmission is good, if Allah wills.”

Al-Haythamī said (1/186):

“Its narrators are reliable, except for Hind bint al-Ḥārith al-Khathʿamiyyah, a female Successor: I have not found anyone who declared her reliable or impugned her!”

I say: On the contrary, she was declared reliable by someone upon whom you place considerable reliance: Ibn Ḥibbān. He mentioned her in al-Thiqāt (5/517), through this Yazīd’s narration from her; and al-Ḥāfiẓ said of her: “Acceptable.”

That is, acceptable when corroborated—and she has indeed been corroborated. Al-Bazzār said in his Musnad (1/405/283—al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār): ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shabīb narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Farawī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd ibn Aslam narrated to us, from his father, from his grandfather, from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Islam will prevail until horses cross the seas, and merchants ply the seas; then there will appear people who recite the Quran …” The rest of the hadith.