on the Day of Sacrifice in Mecca (1). No one else narrated it with a connected chain, and it is an error. Wakī‘ narrated it from his father with a disconnected chain (2): that the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—instructed her to meet him at the dawn prayer on the Day of Sacrifice (3) in Mecca (4), or words to that effect. This too is astonishing (5): what would the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—be doing in Mecca at dawn on the Day of Sacrifice?!’ He was rejecting that account. He said: ‘I then went to Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd and asked him. He replied: From Hishām, from his father: he instructed her to arrive, not to “meet him.”’ He said: ‘There is a difference between the two.’ He continued: ‘Yahyā told me: Ask ‘Abd al-Rahmān about it. I asked him, and he gave the wording as follows: From Hishām, from his father: she was to arrive (6).’”
Al-Khallāl said: “Al-Athram inadvertently misquoted Wakī‘ as saying ‘meet him’; Wakī‘ actually said ‘arrive at Minā.’ He was correct in saying ‘arrive,’ as his fellow narrators did, but mistaken in saying ‘Minā’ (7).”
Al-Khallāl said: “‘Alī ibn Harb informed us: Hārūn ibn ‘Imrān narrated to us, from