Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī narrates—through ʿAmr ibn Ghālib—that a man once reviled ʿĀʾishah in the presence of ʿAmmār. ʿAmmār rebuked him, saying, “Be gone, disgraced one! Would you offend the beloved of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?!” (1)
Tirmidhī judged the isnād sound in some manuscripts; in others he wrote, “This ḥadīth is ḥasan.”
Tirmidhī also said: “Ḥumayd ibn Masʿadah (2) told us, Ziyād ibn al-Rabīʿ told us, Khālid ibn Salamah al-Makhzūmī told us, from Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā, who said:
‘Whenever any ḥadīth proved difficult for us, the Companions of Muhammad ﷺ would ask ʿĀʾishah about it, and we always found that she possessed knowledge of it.’ (3)
This ḥadīth is ḥasan (4) and singular.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Mubārak transmitted the same report through Ziyād ibn al-Rabīʿ, via Khālid ibn Abī Salamah al-Makhzūmī, from Abū Burdah, from his father, who said: “Whenever something was unclear to us …” and he mentioned the rest.
Ziyād is reliable, while Khālid—correctly, Ibn Salamah—was cited as evidence by Muslim.
Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal reports: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuthaym related to us, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, that Dhakwān Abū ʿAmr told him:
“ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās ﵄ came asking permission to enter upon ʿĀʾishah while she was at the point of death. I came, and at her head was ʿAbd Allāh ibn …”