It was transmitted by ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal from ʿAfīf—and he is reliable—whereas Ibn al-Muʾammal is weak. The first chain is therefore the sounder one, and I know of no contemporary scholar who considers blood-money obligatory in a case like this.

Abū Isḥāq narrated—on the authority of Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd—who said:
ʿUmar allotted ten thousand dirhams to each of the Mothers of the Believers, but he added two thousand more for ʿĀʾishah, saying, “She is the beloved of the Messenger of Allah (1).”

Al-Shaʿbī reported that ʿĀʾishah said, “I have memorized for Labīd nearly a thousand lines of poetry.” Al-Shaʿbī would mention her and marvel at her jurisprudential insight and her knowledge, then remark, “What do you think of someone who was reared upon the etiquette of Prophethood!”

Al-Shaʿbī also said:
It was asked of ʿĀʾishah, “Mother of the Believers, you received the Quran directly from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and likewise the rulings of what is lawful and unlawful; as for poetry, genealogy, and historical accounts, you heard those from your father and others—but what about medicine?”
She replied, “Delegations used to come to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and a man would repeatedly complain of an ailment. He would ask the Prophet about its remedy, and the Prophet would inform him. I memorized what he prescribed for them and understood it.”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated from his father that she recited a couplet by Labīd:
“Those whose company once gave life have passed away,
 and I am left behind like the mangy animal’s hide.” (2)