Jaʿfar ibn Burqān and Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Akhdar likewise followed him in narrating it. A number of scholars—among them al-Bayhaqī (1)—then commented: “They have mistaken the matter with respect to al-Zuhrī, for the reliable transmitters among al-Zuhrī’s own students relate from him that he said: ‘It has reached me that ʿĀʾishah and Ḥafṣah began the morning in a state of fasting.’” This is the wording transmitted by Mālik, Yūnus, Maʿmar, Ibn Jurayj, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī, Bakr ibn Wāʾil, and others.

Both Ibn Jurayj and Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah testified, with regard to al-Zuhrī’s very wording, that he had not heard this ḥadith from ʿUrwah.

Ibn Jurayj reported from him: “Rather, people told me during the caliphate of Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, from someone who used to visit ʿĀʾishah.”

Al-Ḥumaydī said: More than one person (2) informed me, quoting Maʿmar, that he remarked about this ḥadith, “Had it been from ʿUrwah, I would have attributed it to him by name.”

Al-Bukhārī and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī declared: “This ḥadith is not sound from al-Zuhrī through ʿUrwah from ʿĀʾishah.”