She said, “I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the verse, ‘And those who give what they give while their hearts are fearful’ (Qur’an 23:60).” ʿĀʾishah continued, “Are they the people who drink wine and behave recklessly?” He replied as already mentioned.

Al-Tirmidhī added, “This ḥadīth has also been transmitted from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿīd, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ with similar wording.”

I say: The chain of ʿĀʾishah’s report consists entirely of trustworthy narrators; for that reason al-Ḥākim said, “Its isnād is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

Yet I also say that it contains a hidden defect, namely a break between ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and ʿĀʾishah, for he did not live to meet her, as stated in al-Tahdhīb. The narration is nevertheless strengthened by the report of Abū Hurayrah to which al-Tirmidhī alluded, for that one is fully connected.

Ibn Jarīr supplied the connected chain, relating: “Ibn Ḥumayd told us, ‘al-Ḥakam ibn Bashīr told us, “ʿUmar ibn Qays told us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Wahb al-Hamdanī, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: ʿĀʾishah …,’” with wording similar to the above.”

All the narrators in this chain are reliable except Ibn Ḥumayd—Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd ibn Ḥayyān al-Rāzī—who is weak despite his retention. It is, however, quite possible that he has corroboration, for the ḥadīth was also recorded by Ibn Abī Dunyā, Ibn al-Anbārī in al-Maṣāḥif, and Ibn Mardawayh, as cited in al-Durr al-Manthūr (5/11). Ibn Abī Dunyā was of the same generation as Ibn Jarīr’s teachers, making it unlikely that he took the narration from that particular shaykh. Allah knows best.