I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the gathering when a man came and greeted the Prophet ﷺ and the people, saying, "Peace be upon you."The Prophet ﷺ replied, "And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings."When the man sat down, he said, "Praise be to Allah, abundant, wholesome, and blessed praise, as our Lord loves and is pleased with."The Prophet ﷺ asked him, "How did you say it?"The man repeated to the Prophet ﷺ what he had said.The Prophet ﷺ then said, "By the One in whose hand my soul is, ten angels rushed toward those words, every one of them eager to record them. They competed over how to write them down until they took the matter up to the Lord of Might, who said, 'Write them down just as My servant has said.'"
كنت جالسا مع رسول الله ﷺ في الحلقة إذ جاء رجل فسلم على النبي ﷺ وعلى القوم، فقال: السلام عليكم، فرد عليه النبي ﷺ: وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته. فلما جلس الرجل قال: الحمد الله كثيرا طيبا مباركا فيه كما يحب ربنا ويرضى. فقال له النبي ﷺ: كيف قلت؟ فرد على النبي ﷺ كما قال، فقال النبي ﷺ والذي نفسي بيده لقد ابتدرها عشرة أملاك كلهم حريص على أن يكتبوها، فبادروا كيف يكتبونها حتى رفعوه إلى ذي العزة فقال: اكتبوها كما قال عبدي.
Nasai narrated it in Amal al-Yawm wal-Layla (341), and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (845), and Diya in al-Mukhtarah (1887), all of them from the hadith of Qutayba bin Saeed, who said, "Khalaf narrated to us, from the nephew of Anas, from Anas," and he related it.Its chain of transmission is hasan, and the discussion of it is set out at length in the Book of Faith, and it has also come before, in brief, in the chapter on what one says when sitting in a gathering.