And Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasā’ī narrated it through Sharīk, from Zumayl (1), the client of ‘Urwah, from ‘Urwah, from ‘Ā’ishah, with a connected chain. Al-Nasā’ī said (2): Zumayl is not well known. Al-Bukhārī said (3): It is not known that Zumayl heard from ‘Urwah, nor that Sharīk (4) heard from Zumayl, and this report cannot serve as evidence.

When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was fasting and visited people, he would complete his fast without breaking it. Thus, when he visited Umm Sulaym and she brought him dates and clarified butter, he said, “Put your clarified butter back in its leather container and your dates back in their vessel, for I am fasting” (5). However, he regarded Umm Sulaym as a member of his own household. It is also authentically reported from him in the Sahīh (6): “If any of you is invited to a meal while fasting, he should say, ‘I am fasting.’”

As for the hadith narrated by Ibn Mājah and al-Tirmidhī (7) from ‘Ā’ishah, who attributed it to the Prophet: “Whoever stays with people as their guest must not observe a voluntary fast without their permission”—al-Tirmidhī said (8): This is a rejected hadith. We know of no reliable narrator who related this hadith from Hishām ibn ‘Urwah.