the well-known disagreement concerning Muhammad ibn ʿAmr—namely, Muhammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ al-Madanī. Al-Dhahabī said in al-Mīzān:
“A well-known shaykh, good in hadith; he narrated extensively from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim both cited him in corroboration.”
Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb:
“Truthful, though prone to errors.”
It also has a supporting report attributed to the Companion, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, may Allah be pleased with him. Wakīʿ recorded it in al-Zuhd (1/297–298), and Ibn Abī Shaybah, through Wakīʿ’s chain, recorded it in al-Muṣannaf (13/287–288), with an authentic chain from him. Hannād also recorded it in al-Zuhd (2/353–354) through another chain whose narrators are trustworthy.
It has another supporting report attributed to the Prophet, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, in similar wording. I had traced its sources in the other book (5650), because its chain is disconnected, despite its trustworthy narrators. Then I came upon this valuable and strong corroborating report, so I hastened to trace its sources here, and then referred to it there, so that readers may have clear awareness and knowledge of what continues to emerge in the field of knowledge; for it advances and does not admit stagnation. With Allah Almighty lies success.
- “No Muslim who goes to bed in a state of ritual purity, remembering Allah, then awakens during the night and asks Allah for some good in the affairs of this world and the Hereafter, will fail to be granted it.”
Al-Ṭayālisī recorded it in his Musnad (77/563): Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Thābit, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, who said: A man narrated to us from Muʿādh that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ... and he mentioned it in similar wording. Thābit said: