- “I can recognize when you are angry with me and when you are pleased with me.” She said, “How do you know that?” He said, “When you are pleased, you say, ‘Yes, by the Lord of Muhammad!’ But when you are angry, you say, ‘No, by the Lord of Abraham!’”
It was narrated by al-Bukhari (5228 and 6078) and Muslim (7/135), through two routes from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿA’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said ... then he cited the first part of it.
She said, “I said, ‘How do you know that, O Messenger of Allah?’”
He said ... then he cited the second part of it.
She said, “Yes, I forsake only your name.”
It was also narrated by al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (403), Ibn Hibban (2117), al-Baghawi (2338), al-Bayhaqi (10/27), Ahmad (6/61 and 213), Abu Yaʿla (4893 and 4894), al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (23, nos. 119, 120, 121, and 122), and al-Khatib in his Tarikh (3/61), through various routes from Hisham with this chain.
I say: ʿAbbad ibn ʿAbbad differed from all the narrators who reported from Hisham. Ahmad (6/30)—and through him, Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilyah (9/227)—narrated it from this ʿAbbad, from Hisham, with this chain. However, he erred in preserving its wording, rendering the second part as follows:
“When you are angry, you say, ‘O Muhammad!’ and when you are pleased, you say, ‘O Messenger of Allah!’”
ʿAbbad was al-Azdi al-ʿAtaki. Despite being trustworthy, he made mistakes, as Ibn Saʿd said,