transmission through a connected chain—for this report has three defects. The first is that al-Thawrī differed with al-A‘mash regarding its chain: al-Thawrī transmitted it with a disconnected chain and did not say, “from Ibn ‘Umar.” The second is that al-A‘mash was known to conceal intermediaries in transmission and did not state that he had heard it from Habīb ibn Abī Thābit. The third is that Habīb ibn Abī Thābit was also known to conceal intermediaries in transmission, and it is not known that he heard it from ‘Atā’.

I heard Ishāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Habīb ibn al-Shahīd say: Abū Bakr ibn ‘Ayyāsh narrated to us, from