Ahmad 7642

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Its meaning will come again in brief at 9118, from Hawdha bin Khalifa, from Awf Arabi, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah. Muslim also related it, 2:200, from Muhammad bin Rafi, from Abdul-Razzaq, with this same chain, but he did not give the wording in full, referring instead to the narration before it. In this narration he made clear that the statement, "I like the restraint..." is Abu Hurairah's own words, as in the Musnad's version.Muslim also related it, 2:200, from Muhammad bin Abu Umar Makki, and Tirmidhi, 3:247, who graded it sahih, from Nasr bin Ali, and Abu Dawud, 5019, from Qutayba bin Saeed, all three of them from Abdul-Wahhab Thaqafi, from Ayub, similarly, except that Abu Dawud did not mention at the end, "A believer's vision is one of forty-six parts...", while Tirmidhi mentioned it within the hadith, and Muslim also mentioned it within it, but in his version it reads, "one of forty-five parts." As for Abu Hurairah's statement, "I like the restraint," and so on, these three narrators gave it in the wording, "and I love the restraint," without clarifying that it was Abu Hurairah's own words, in the versions of Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi. But in Muslim's version, he says at the end, "I do not know whether this is part of the hadith or whether Ibn Sirin said it," without clarifying who it was that had this doubt about the wording.It appears to me that it was Abdul-Wahhab Thaqafi, because the narration of Mamar here in the Musnad, from Ayub, states clearly that it is Abu Hurairah's own words, and because Nasr bin Ali and Qutayba bin Saeed both related it from Abdul-Wahhab with it embedded in the hadith. So it seems he had doubts about it afterward, and then he clarified what he doubted when Muhammad bin Abu Umar heard it from him.Tirmidhi also related it, 3:250, grading it sahih, through the route of Saeed bin Abu Aruba, from Qatada, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, marking the whole thing as a saying of the Prophet, without including his statement, "I like the restraint," and so on. Rather, he mentioned it within the hadith, and he did not include the statement, "The vision is a part..." and so on.Muslim likewise related it, 2:200, through the route of Hisham Dastawai, from Qatada, without giving the wording in full, referring instead to what came before it, but he did state clearly what we have explained regarding what was embedded and what was omitted.Muslim also related it through the route of Hammad bin Zayd, from Ayub and Hisham, that is, Ibn Hassan, both of them from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, without giving the wording, but instead saying, "and he related the hadith," without mentioning the Prophet ﷺ in it. This approach by Muslim indicates that this version contains the whole hadith, and that it is entirely stopped at Abu Hurairah's own words.However, it will come again in full at 10598, from Yazid bin Harun, from Hisham bin Hassan, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, marked as a saying of the Prophet, including Abu Hurairah's own statement within it. Darimi also related part of it as two hadiths in two chapters, 2:125, with a single chain, through the route of Makhlad bin Husayn Azdi Husayni, from Hisham bin Hassan, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, marked as a saying of the Prophet. He did not mention in it, "I like the restraint..." nor "A believer's vision..." This indicates that the whole hadith is, according to Hisham bin Hassan, a saying of the Prophet, even though he once related it as stopped at Abu Hurairah.Then again, this meaning is not something known through personal reasoning, so if it is related in wording as stopped, it is nevertheless, in ruling, a saying of the Prophet. Ibn Majah also related two hadiths through two routes. He related part of it, 3906, through the route of Hawdha, from Awf, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, like the coming narration in the Musnad, 9118, from Hawdha. And he related part of it, 3917, through the route of Bishr bin Bakr, from Uzai, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah. Both parts in it are marked as sayings of the Prophet, and together they make up the hadith found here. Nothing was omitted from it except Abu Hurairah's statement, "I like the restraint..."As for Bukhari, he related it in full, complete, 12:356-361, through the route of Mutamir bin Sulayman, from Awf Arabi, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When time draws near, a believer's vision will hardly ever prove false, and a believer's vision is one of forty-six parts of prophecy, and whatever is from prophecy does not prove false." Muhammad, meaning Ibn Sirin, said, "And I say this," he said, "and it used to be said, visions are of three kinds," and so on.This version contains an addition, "and whatever is from prophecy," but Ibn Sirin made clear that it was his own statement, meant to explain that a believer's vision hardly ever proves false. The apparent sense of this version is that the statement, "visions are of three kinds," and so on, is not part of the hadith attributed to the Prophet, but rather is attributed to an unnamed speaker. However, the other narrations agree in supporting that it is indeed attributed to the Prophet.As for the statement that is stopped at Abu Hurairah in the Musnad's version here, Bukhari mentioned it in his narration in a way that suggests its speaker is not known. Then Bukhari pointed to some of the narrations of the hadith and the disagreement over whether it is attributed to the Prophet, saying, "Qatada, Yunus, Hisham, and Abu Hilal related it from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ, and some of them embedded the whole of it within the hadith, while Awf's hadith is clearer. Yunus said, I only think it is from the Prophet ﷺ regarding the restraint." Thus the Hafiz has set out the various versions here in a thorough and complete manner.As for the end of the hadith here, "A believer's vision is a part...", this has already come at 7183, from Abdul-Ala, from Mamar, from Zuhri, from Saeed bin Musayab, from Abu Hurairah, attributed to the Prophet, and it will also come again right after this one.