Abū’l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. ʿAmrū b. ʿAlī al-Baṣrī narrated to us, saying that Abū ʿAmrū Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Bastarī narrated to him among others in Bastar, [1] saying that Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Zuhayr al-ʿUsrī narrated to him among others, saying that Abū’l-Khaṭṭāb Ziyād b. Yaḥyā al-Ḥasanī narrated to him among others, saying that Abū Ghiyāth narrated to him among others, saying that Jarīr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to him among others, from Abī Isḥāq, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾisha, who reported: “I heard the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم saying: “There is not a servant who wakes up to fast except that the gates of the sky are opened up to him until he disappears behind the veil. Were he to perform a unit or two of voluntary prayers, the heavens would be brightly illuminated with a light from his wives from among the celestial maidens, who will say—O’ Allāh, bring him to us, for we long to see him!—and verily, every pronouncement of tahlīl (“There is no other god besides Allāh”) or tasbīḥ (“Glory be to Allāh”) is met with seventy thousand angels recording (the rewards thereof) until he disappears behind the veil.”