My mother asked me, "When did you last visit the Prophet ﷺ?"I replied, "I have not been with him for such and such a time."She rebuked me for this, so I said to her, "Let me go to the Prophet ﷺ so I may pray Maghrib with him and ask him to seek forgiveness for me and for you."I came to the Prophet ﷺ and prayed Maghrib with him, then he continued praying until he prayed Isha. Afterwards he turned to leave, and I followed him. He heard my voice and said, "Who is this? Hudhayfah?"I said, "Yes."He said, "What is your need? May Allah forgive you and your mother." Then he said, "This is an angel who has never descended to the earth before this night. He sought permission from his Lord to greet me and to give me the glad tidings that Fatimah is the mistress of the women of Paradise, and that Hasan and Husayn are the masters of the youth of Paradise."He said, this is a hasan gharib hadith from this route. We do not know it except through the narration of Israil.
حدثنا عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن وإسحق بن منصور قالا أخبرنا محمد بن يوسف عن إسرائيل عن ميسرة بن حبيب عن المنهال بن عمرو عن زر بن حبيش
سألتني أمي متى عهدك تعني بالنبي ﷺ فقلت ما لي به عهد منذ كذا وكذا فنالت مني فقلت لها دعيني آتي النبي ﷺ فأصلي معه المغرب وأسأله أن يستغفر لي ولك فأتيت النبي ﷺ فصليت معه المغرب فصلى حتى صلى العشاء ثم انفتل فتبعته فسمع صوتي فقال من هذا حذيفة قلت نعم قال ما حاجتك غفر الله لك ولأمك قال إن هذا ملك لم ينزل الأرض قط قبل هذه الليلة استأذن ربه أن يسلم علي ويبشرني بأن فاطمة سيدة نساء أهل الجنة وأن الحسن والحسين سيدا شباب أهل الجنة قال هذا حديث حسن غريب من هذا الوجه لا نعرفه إلا من حديث إسرائيل
[Its isnad is hasan]. Tabarani also narrated it in Al-Kabir (3/37, no. 2607) from the hadith of Muhammad bin Yusuf, and Ahmad (391/A) from the hadith of Israil through him, and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (no. 2229), as did Ibn Khuzayma (no. 1194) and Dhahabi in Talkhis Mustadrak (3/381).