ʿĀʾishah said: I said: O Messenger of Allāh, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, does our Lord, the Exalted, laugh? He said: "By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muḥammad, indeed He laughs." So I said: We will not be deprived of good from Him if He laughs. It was also recorded by Ibn Khuzaymah (p. 153), Ibn ʿAdī (3/924), and al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (13/44) through the route of Mūsá ibn Khāqān Abū ʿImrān al-Naḥwī who said: Salm ibn Sālim al-Balkhī narrated to us. I said: This isnād is weak; Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab is abandoned as stated in "al-Taqrīb". Salm ibn Sālim al-Balkhī is weak. He has a biography in "al-Lisān". In summary, the ḥadīth, with the combination of both routes, is ḥasan in my view, and it is perhaps what Ibn Taymiyyah meant by saying: "ḥadīth ḥasan" in "al-ʿAqīdah al-Wāsiṭiyyah". In contrast, Ibn al-Qayyim authenticated the ḥadīth in its entirety in "Zād al-Maʿād" in (al-Wufūd) and said: "This is a great, noble ḥadīth, its grandeur and magnificence proclaim that it has emerged from the lamp of prophethood..!" I said: Then he mentioned those who narrated it from the imams, and he did not address any of its unknown narrators, and with such speech, al-Khaṭṭābī does not authenticate ḥadīths! Gharīb al-ḥadīth: 1 - (ghayruhu), in "Sharḥ al-Qāmūs": "al-ghayr is from the change of state, and it is a noun meaning separation and blame, and it may be a plural with its singular being ghayrah."