Ahmad also recorded this report: Abu Nuʿaym narrated to us; Yunus narrated to us from al-Walid ibn al-ʿAyzar who said: “Hudhayfah stated….” Al-Haythami comments, “Ahmad transmitted it and its transmitters are reliable.”

I (the author) add: All of them are narrators found in the collections of the two Shaykhs, yet the chain is outwardly broken. For Ahmad likewise recorded it with the wording: Wakiʿ narrated to us; Yunus—from al-ʿAyzar ibn Ḥarith—from Hudhayfah— in abridged form. This isnad is sound and its transmitters are those cited by Muslim, provided Yunus actually heard it from al-ʿAyzar; more likely he heard it from al-ʿAyzar’s son, al-Walid ibn al-ʿAyzar, as in the first version. Allah knows best.

The word mirṭ—pronounced with a short “i” on the mīm and a silent rāʾ— is defined in al-Maʿālim as “a garment worn by men and women alike; it may serve as a waist-wrapper or an upper cloak and can be made of wool, brocade, or other materials.”

The second hadith comes through ʿAmr ibn Sulaym al-Zuraqī from Abu Qatadah al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him). It is related by al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, as well as by Malik, al-Nasaʾi, al-Darimi, al-Bayhaqi, al-Tayalisi, and Ahmad through several chains. The material placed between square brackets appears as an addition in the versions of Abu Dawud, al-Nasaʾi, and Ahmad, and its chain is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs.