Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “Abandoned.” ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿĪzār is trustworthy, as stated in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (2/2/330). The remaining narrators are known and trustworthy, apart from Isḥāq ibn Zayd al-Khaṭṭābī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him in al-Jarḥ, and al-Samʿānī in al-Ansāb, but neither mentioned any criticism or accreditation of him. Perhaps he is included in Ibn Ḥibbān’s al-Thiqāt.

It has a corroborating report from the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. He said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he then cited it in the wording of the heading, except that he said: “their slips, short of the prescribed legal punishments.” Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ, as did Abū Nuʿaym from him in Tārīkh Iṣbahān (2/234), and al-Khaṭīb in his Tārīkh (10/85–86), through two routes from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Rifāʿī, who said: “My father narrated to me: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us, from ʿĀṣim, from Zirr, from him.”

Al-Ṭabarānī said: “It is not narrated from Ibn Masʿūd except through this chain of transmission; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd alone transmitted it.”

I say: He is trustworthy, as al-Khaṭīb stated. He gave his kunyah as Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī al-Marwazī and cited this hadith in his biographical notice. He mentioned that he died in 275 AH. The remaining narrators are reliable, and their hadiths are good, apart from Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Rifāʿī, concerning whom the scholars differed. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “He is not strong.”

I say: A narrator of his calibre has reports that are, at the very least, good when supported by other evidence. Thus, this hadith is a good corroborating report for the hadith of ʿĀʾishah. And Allah knows best.