and Abu Hudhayfah al-Arhabi; Abu Hafsah, her freedman; Abu al-Zubayr al-Makki—it appears to be a mursal report; Abu Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman; Abu al-Shaʿthāʾ al-Muhāribi; Abu al-Ṣiddīq al-Nāji; Abu Dhubyān al-Janbi; Abu al-ʿĀliyah Rufaʿi al-Riyāhi; Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Jadali (1); Abu ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿud; Abu ʿUthmān al-Nahdi; Abu ʿAṭiyyah al-Wādiʿi; Abu Qilābah al-Jarmi—though he never met her; Abu al-Malīḥ al-Hudhali; Abu Musa; Abu Hurayrah; Abu Nawfal ibn Abi Aqrab; and Abu Yunus, her freedman.
Among the women who narrated from her are: Buhayyah (2), the freedwoman of al-Ṣiddīq; Jasrah bint Dajājah; Hafsah, daughter of her brother ʿAbd al-Rahman; Khayrah, mother of al-Hasan al-Basri; Ḍifrah bint Ghalib; Zaynab bint Abi Salamah; Zaynab bint Naṣr; Zaynab al-Sahmiyyah; Sumayyah al-Basriyyah; Shumaysah (3) al-ʿAtakiyyah; Ṣafiyyah bint Shaybah; Ṣafiyyah bint Abi ʿUbaydah; ʿĀʾishah bint Ṭalḥah; ʿAmrah bint ʿAbd al-Rahman; Marjānah, mother of ʿAlqamah ibn Abi ʿAlqamah; Muʿādhah al-ʿAdawiyyah; Umm Kulthum al-Taymiyyah, her sister; Umm Muḥammad, the wife of the father of ʿAli ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān; and a group besides these.
(The Musnad of ʿĀʾishah) numbers two thousand, two hundred and ten hadiths.
Al-Bukhari and Muslim are agreed on one hundred and seventy-four of them. Al-Bukhari alone transmits fifty-four, while Muslim alone transmits sixty-nine.
ʿĀʾishah was born in the era of Islam and was eight years younger than Fāṭimah. She used to say, “I do not remember a time when my parents were not following the religion.”
She also recounted that in Mecca she came across the keeper of the elephant—an old blind man—who was asking for alms.