while he was teaching them about their religion, their eyes suddenly fixed, and he said ... and he mentioned it. I said: This is a good isnād; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd—who is al-Sijistānī—is a ḥāfiẓ, son of a ḥāfiẓ. The rest are trustworthy, from the men of "Tahdhīb." This is a strong corroboration for the ḥadīth of al-Bukhārī (7435) from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh who said: The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "You will see your Lord visibly." When al-Ṭabarānī included it in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (2/296/2233) through the route of Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ (originally: al-Khayyāṭ) with his authentic isnād from Jarīr; al-Ṭabarānī said: "The term 'visibly' was uniquely reported by Abū Shihāb, who is a precise ḥāfiẓ among the trustworthy Muslims." I said: A group followed him on the original ḥadīth without the addition, and therefore I had judged it in "Ẓilāl al-Jannah" (1/201/461) as anomalous, but now I have retracted that due to this strong corroboration, and perhaps for this reason, the ḥāfiẓ used it as evidence in "al-Fatḥ" (13/426), and did not criticize it as anomalous. And Allāh knows best. The ḥadīth was cited by al-Suyūṭī with the wording of al-Bukhārī in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr," and he only attributed it to al-Ṭabarānī! Others have narrated it as you see in "al-Ẓilāl." It contains a refutation of the Muʿtazilah and Ibāḍīyah who deny this great blessing: the believers seeing their Lord on the Day of Judgment, and of those who affirm it but interpret it as knowledge. See "al-Fatḥ." *