otherwise, they would be deficient. For all these reasons, I had to examine these corroborating reports—or as many of them as possible—from the two aspects I have indicated: the strength and completeness of their testimony, or the lack thereof, and to determine the matter precisely. I therefore say:
- The hadith master mentioned two chains for the hadith of ʿĀʾishah, indicating that one of them is very weak. For a narrator concerning whom al-Bukhārī says, “His hadith is rejected,” is, in his view, at the very lowest level of weakness, as is well known. He said nothing about the other chain, so its status and the wording of its text must be clarified. I say: al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (15/16—its supplementary reports): “Hārūn ibn Kāmil narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Suwayd al-Madanī narrated to me; Abū Ḥazrah Yaʿqūb ibn Mujāhid informed me; ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr informed me, from ʿĀʾishah, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him,” and then related it in full, with the same wording, except that he said, “If he calls upon Me, I will answer him,” in place of, “If he seeks refuge in Me, I will grant him refuge.” He then said: “No one narrated it from Abū Ḥazrah except Ibrāhīm; and no one narrated it from ʿUrwah except Abū Ḥazrah and ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Maymūn.”
I say: All the narrators in this chain are known and reliable, with biographical entries in al-Tahdhīb, except Hārūn ibn Kāmil, who was Egyptian, as stated in al-Ṭabarānī’s al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr, p. 232. I found no biographical entry for him; were it not for him, the chain would be good. Yet al-Ṭabarānī’s preceding statement apparently indicates that he was not alone in narrating it, for he ascribed sole transmission to Ibrāhīm, the teacher of his own teacher.
Al-Haythamī also cited its opening portion (10/269), then said: “Al-Bazzār narrated it—and this is his wording—as did Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ. Its chain contains ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Qays, whom more than one scholar declared reliable, while others deemed him weak. The remaining narrators in Aḥmad’s chain are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, and the narrators in al-Ṭabarānī’s al-Awsaṭ are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, apart from his teacher Hārūn ibn Kāmil.”
I say: Yaʿqūb ibn Mujāhid and Ibrāhīm ibn Suwayd are not among the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ; rather, al-Bukhārī narrated from them only in al-Adab al-Mufrad.