The hadith of ʿUmar is a good (ḥasan) hadith.

This hadith has been narrated by al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, from a man of Juʿfī called Qays, or Ibn Qays, from ʿUmar, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—this hadith appears within a long story.

The scholars among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and the Followers have differed regarding—

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As for the hadith of Aws ibn Ḥudhayfah, it was transmitted by al-Ṭayālisī (1108), Aḥmad (16166), Abū Dāwūd (1393), and Ibn Mājah (1345) from him, who said: We came to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, in the delegation of Thaqīf. He said: The Aḥlāf settled with al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah, and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, lodged the Banū Mālik in a tent of his. He would come to us every night after the ʿishāʾ prayer and speak to us while standing on his feet, until he would shift his weight from one foot to the other due to the length of standing. Most of what he told us about was what he had suffered from his people, the Quraysh... and he mentioned the hadith in full. Its chain of transmission is weak.

As for the hadith of ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, it was transmitted by Aḥmad (19921), who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, would speak to us most of the night about the Children of Israel, and would not rise except for an obligatory prayer. This hadith is authentic, but it is from the narration of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, for Muḥammad ibn Sulaym al-Rāsubī, one of its narrators, was alone in making it a narration of ʿImrān—and he is lax in hadith—and other trustworthy narrators differed with him, making it a narration of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, which is the correct version. We have mentioned the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr recently.

(1) This path was transmitted by Abū ʿUbayd in Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān, p. 372; Aḥmad (265); ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad in his supplementary additions to al-Musnad (267); al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr 7/199; al-Tirmidhī in al-ʿIlal 2/883; and al-Bayhaqī 1/453, via the path of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, with this chain—except that they added in it: "from Qarthaʿ al-Ḍabbī" between ʿAlqamah and the man of Juʿfī, and they did not mention in it the story of the night conversation (al-samar), and they related another portion of it—except for Abū ʿUbayd, who did not cite its wording.