—the word “foot.”

This is identical to the way his report about the muḥallil (the intermediary husband) is judged defective, point for point.

A similar case is his narration from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from his father, concerning the prescribed alms (ṣadaqāt). (1)

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “No one followed Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn in that; it is not sound.” (2)

This is despite the fact that a corroborating route exists in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, (3) and that Sulaimān ibn Kathīr—Muḥammad ibn Kathīr’s brother—agreed with him on it; nevertheless, the ḥadith was not deemed authentic, because Sufyān alone related it and the other pupils of al-Zuhrī contradicted him by stopping the chain short.

An even clearer example is that Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn narrated from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “Ḥafṣah and I were fasting. Food was offered to us, we felt inclined toward it and ate it. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered, and Ḥafṣah—true to her father’s disposition—spoke before I could and told him what had happened. He said, ‘Make up another day in its place.’” (4)