Then I found another route for the hadith from Abū Hurayrah, but it is not one to be pleased with; I mention it only for the sake of information. Abū Nuʿaym transmitted it in al-Ḥilyah (7/142) through the route of Isḥāq ibn al-ʿAnbarī: Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us, from Suhayl, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, with the same wording. He said: “It is a singular report among the narrations of al-Thawrī; Isḥāq alone narrated it from Yaʿlā.”

I say: Yaʿlā and those above him are trustworthy narrators relied upon by Muslim. The flaw lies only with this Isḥāq, whom al-Dhahabī included in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ wa-al-Matrūkūn and described as “a liar”!

Al-Bukhārī cited the hadith in suspended form in his Ṣaḥīḥ, using decisive wording. He said (2/510): “Chapter: The grateful eater is like the patient fasting person. It contains a report from Abū Hurayrah from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.”

Isḥāq ibn Mūsā al-Anṣārī was contradicted in his chain of transmission by Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib, who narrated: Muḥammad ibn Maʿn narrated to us, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Umawī, from Maʿn ibn Muḥammad, from Ḥanẓalah ibn ʿAlī al-Aslamī, from Abū Hurayrah, with the same wording. This Yaʿqūb is weak, so al-Anṣārī’s narration takes precedence over his, because he is more trustworthy—especially since it is corroborated by the previously mentioned narration of ʿAbd al-Razzāq. And Allah knows best.

656 — “Consult the orphan girl concerning herself, and her consent is her silence.”

Al-Suyūṭī recorded it thus in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (1/3/2), citing al-Ṭabarānī’s narration in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī. The author of al-Fatḥ al-Kabīr fī Ḍamm al-Ziyādah ilā al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr followed him in this, but did not mark it as being from the Supplement. Perhaps that indication was omitted by the copyist or typesetter, for I did not find it in al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr with al-Manāwī’s commentary; nor did al-Haythamī mention it in this wording, but rather in the wording: