He said, “The leg is jubar (not subject to compensation).” (1) Al-Shāfiʿī commented, “That is an error, for the master hadith scholars did not preserve it in this form.”

Al-Bayhaqī added, “This extra clause is reported only by Sufyān b. Ḥusayn from al-Zuhrī. Malik, al-Layth, Ibn Jurayj, Maʿmar, ʿUqayl, Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah, and others all narrated the report from al-Zuhrī, and none of them mentioned the word ‘leg’ in it. (2)”

Al-Dāraqutnī said, “No one corroborated Sufyān b. Ḥusayn in his wording ‘The leg is jubar’; it is a mistake on his part, for the reliable transmitters (3) differed with him and did not include that clause.”

The ḥuffāẓ also deemed Sufyān b. Ḥusayn mistaken for tracing to the Prophet ﷺ the report of al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah: “I and Ḥafṣah were both fasting … .”

They said—and these are al-Bayhaqī’s exact words (4)—“The trustworthy ḥuffāẓ among al-Zuhrī’s students narrated it from him with a broken chain: Malik, Yūnus, Maʿmar, Ibn Jurayj, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿUmar, Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah, Bakr b. Wāʾil (5), and others—meaning…"