It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (4/231), Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (1/4), al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (1/142/2), Abū al-Qāsim al-Mahrawānī in "al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh al-Ṣiḥāḥ" (2/3/1), and Ibn al-Ḥammāmī al-Ṣūfī in "Muntaqā min Masmūʿātih" (171/1), all of whom authenticated it, as well as Rizq Allāh al-Ḥanbalī in "Aḥādīth min Masmūʿātih" (1/2 - 2/1), Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥasan al-Nābulusī in "al-Aḥādīth al-Sittah al-ʿIrāqiyyah" (Q 26/1), and al-Bayhaqī in "al-Zuhd" (Q 83/2) and in "al-Asmāʾ wa-al-Ṣifāt" p. 491, through the route of Khālid ibn Makhlad who narrated to us from Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, who narrated to me from Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Namr from ʿAṭāʾ from Abū Hurayrah who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is weak, and it is among the few isnāds criticized by the scholars regarding al-Bukhārī, may Allāh have mercy on him. Al-Dhahabī said in the biography of Khālid ibn Makhlad, who is al-Qaṭwānī, after mentioning the scholars' disagreement on his reliability and narrating ḥadīths he uniquely reported, among them: "This is a very strange ḥadīth, and if it were not for the reverence of 'al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ' (!), I would have counted it among the denounced reports of Khālid ibn Makhlad, due to the strangeness of its wording and because it is uniquely reported by Sharīk, who is not a ḥāfiẓ, and this text was not narrated except through this isnād. And none besides al-Bukhārī recorded it, nor do I think it is in 'Musnad Aḥmad'. There is a disagreement regarding ʿAṭāʾ; it was said: he is Ibn Abī Rabāḥ, but the correct view is that he is ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār." This statement was quoted with some brevity by the ḥāfiẓ in "al-Fatḥ" (11/292-293), then he said: "I said: It is certainly not in 'Musnad Aḥmad', and the assertion that this text was not narrated except through this isnād is refuted. Nevertheless, Sharīk, the teacher of Khālid, is also subject to criticism. He is the narrator of the ḥadīth of the Miʿrāj in which he added and omitted, advanced and delayed, and uniquely reported things that were not followed by others. However, the ḥadīth has other routes, the totality of which indicates that it has a basis. 1 - Among them is from ʿĀʾishah, recorded by Aḥmad in "al-Musnad" (6/256) and in "al-Zuhd", Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah", and al-Bayhaqī in "al-Zuhd" through the route of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Maymūn from