Al-Bazzār likewise recorded the report in his Musnad, with the wording: “When he sat, he would set his knees upright and clasp them with his hands.”

Abū Dāwūd then said (1): Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar and Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl both narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥassān al-ʿAnbarī narrated to us; my two grandmothers Ṣafiyyah and Duḥaybah, the daughters of ʿUlaybah—Mūsā added: the daughter of Ḥarmalah—who were the step-daughters of Qaylah bint Makhramah, their father’s grandmother, told me that she had informed them that she saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sitting in the qurfuṣāʾ posture. She said, “When I beheld the Messenger of Allah sitting so humbly, I trembled with awe.”

Al-Tirmidhī also transmitted it in al-Shamāʾil (2) and in the Jāmiʿ (3) through ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, from ʿAffān ibn Muslim, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥassān. It is part of a longer ḥadīth that al-Ṭabarānī has quoted in full in his al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (4).

Al-Bukhārī said (5): al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ “used to speak in such measured words that, were someone to count them, he could do so.”

Al-Bukhārī also said (6): al-Layth related to me: Yūnus narrated to me, from Ibn Shihāb, who informed me that ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr told him, from ʿĀʾishah, that she said: “Are you not amazed (7) at So-and-so? He came and sat beside my chamber, narrating from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ so that I could hear while I was busy glorifying Allah. He left before I had finished my tasbīḥ. Had I caught up with him, I would have refuted him, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not reel off speech the way you do.”

Aḥmad (8) reported it through ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq, Muslim (9) through Ḥarmalah, and Abū Dāwūd (10) through Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd—all of them from Ibn Wahb, from Yūnus ibn Yazīd—with a similar wording. Their version states: “Are you not amazed at Abū Hurayrah …,” and she said something to that effect.

Imām Aḥmad also said (11): Wakīʿ narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from Usāmah, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “The Prophet’s ﷺ speech was distinct and clear; everyone could grasp it, and he did not rattle it off in haste.”