3987 - Yahya ibn al-Fadl narrated to us, Wuhayb — meaning Ibn 'Amr al-Namari — narrated to us, Harun informed us, Aban ibn Taghlib informed me, from 'Atiyyah al-'Awfi,
from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Indeed, a man from the people of 'Illiyyin will look down upon the people of Paradise, and Paradise will shine with the light of his face, as if it were a brilliant star (kawkab durriyy)." — He said: "And thus the hadith came: 'durriyy,' with the damma on the dal, not pronounced with a hamzah." — "And indeed, Abu Bakr and 'Umar are among them, and how excellent they are!" (1)

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= "You have seen me and Mu'awiyah, and I read: {فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ} (in a muddy spring), and he said: 'Hamiyah' (hot). Then Ka'b entered, and he asked him, and he said: 'You are more knowledgeable in Arabic than I, but it sets in a black spring,' or he said: 'in mud (ham'ah).' ... This is the wording of Khalil ibn Ahmad, and the other two said: 'It disappears in thaat,' and thaat is mud. And the name of 'Amr ibn Maymun has been altered to 'Amr ibn Mabhul, and the name of Isma'il ibn Umayyah to Isma'il ibn 'Ulayyah, and the chain of Khalil's path is authentic.
And al-Tabari also transmitted it 16/11, and al-Tahawi in "Sharh al-Mushkil" 1/257, via the path of 'Ata' ibn Abi Rabah, from Ibn 'Abbas, who said: "I read {فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ}, and 'Amr ibn al-'As read {في عين حامية} (in a hot spring). So we sent to Ka'b, and he said: 'It sets in ham'ah, black mud.'"
And its chain is authentic according to al-Tahawi.
And it was also transmitted 16/11 via the path of Sa'id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn 'Abbas, that he used to read this letter: {فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ}, and he would say: "Black mud in which the sun sets." And its chain — its narrators are trustworthy.
Ibn Zanjalah said in "Hujjat al-Qira'at," pp. 428-429: Ibn 'Amir, Hamzah, al-Kisa'i, and Abu Bakr read: {فِي عَيْنٍ حامِيَةٍ} with an alif, meaning hot... And the rest read: {فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ} with a hamzah, and ham'ah is fetid mud whose color and taste have changed.
His saying: "mukhaffafah" (lightened), meaning with the deletion of the alif after the ha', i.e., not hamiyah, as in the recitation.
And a narration with the second recitation — i.e., with the alif — will come under number (4002).
(1) An authentic hadith except for his saying: "And indeed, Abu Bakr and 'Umar are among them, and how excellent they are" — it is authentic due to other corroborating evidence, and this chain is weak due to the weakness of 'Atiyyah al-'Awfi — who is Ibn Sa'd. Harun: he is Ibn Musa al-'Ataki, their freed slave, the grammarian, and Yahya ibn al-Fadl: he is Ibn Yahya al-'Anazi. =