from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir who said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prepared an army one night until half the night had passed, or nearly so, then he came out and said: 'The people have prayed and slept while you are waiting for this prayer. Indeed, you will be considered in prayer as long as you are waiting for it.'" I said: And this isnād is authentic according to the conditions of Muslim.

"The Praiseworthy Station: the intercession." It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/478) and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (8/372) through the route of Dāwūd al-Awdī from his father from Abū Hurayrah as marfūʿ. It was also recorded by Aḥmad (2/441, 444, 528), al-Tirmidhī (2/193), al-Dūlābī in "al-Kuná" (2/164), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Mushkil al-Āthār" (1/449), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Sunnah" (784 - my verification), Ibn Khuzaymah in "al-Tawḥīd" (p. 198), al-Marwazī in "Zawāʾid al-Zuhd" (1312), Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī in "al-Muktafá" (51/2), Tamām in "al-Fawāʾid" (125/2), and al-Sahmī in "Tārīkh Jurjān" (153) through other routes from al-Awdī with the wording: "I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say regarding the saying of Allāh ﷿: *'It may be that your Lord will raise you to a Praiseworthy Station'* (Sūrah al-Isrāʾ, verse 79): 'It is the station in which I will intercede for my nation.'" I said: And Dāwūd is Ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Awdī al-Zaʿfarī Abū Yazīd al-Kūfī, and he is