I say: There are two errors in this. First, his statement, “Authentic according to the conditions of al-Bukhari and Muslim,” even though al-Dhahabi agreed with him: Ibrahim al-Sa’igh—namely, Ibn Maymun—and Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Shuqayq were not cited by al-Bukhari or Muslim at all. As for Hammad—who is Ibn Abi Sulayman—al-Bukhari did not cite him at all in his Sahih, but only in al-Adab al-Mufrad. Thus, it is merely authentic.

The other error is that al-Bukhari and Muslim did not record Aishah’s other hadith at all—“The finest food a man eats …”—rather, it was recorded by some of the compilers of the Sunan. I have documented it in Irwa al-Ghalil (nos. 830 and 1626).

This hadith contains an important legal benefit that may not be found elsewhere: it clarifies that the well-known hadith, “You and your wealth belong to your father” (Irwa al-Ghalil, no. 838), is not unrestricted, such that a father may take whatever he wishes from his son’s property. No; rather, he may take only what he needs.

2565 — “Whoever fasts one day in the path of Allah, Allah will distance Hell from him by a journey of one hundred years.”

It was recorded by al-Nasai (2/314), Ibn Abi Asim in al-Jihad (no. 1/88/2), and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (17/335, no. 927), through Yahya ibn al-Harith, from al-Qasim, from Uqbah ibn Amir, who said that the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, said it. I say: This chain of transmission is good; its narrators are trustworthy. There has been some discussion concerning al-Qasim—who is Ibn Abd al-Rahman, the companion of Abu Umamah—but it does not lower his hadith below the rank of good. The hadith also has a corroborating report narrated by Zabban, from Faid, from Sahl ibn Muadh, from his father, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording, adding: