His enabling grace.

Then I found a good corroborating report narrated by Anas which will appear later under number (308).

201 – “Whoever tells you that the Prophet ﷺ used to urinate standing, do not believe him; he never urinated except while seated.”

It was recorded by al-Nasāʾī (1/11), al-Tirmidhī (1/17), Ibn Mājah (1/130) and al-Ṭayālisī (1/45 of his arrangement), all of them through the chain: Shurayk ibn al-Miqdām – Shurayḥ – his father – ʿĀʾishah, who said … and he mentioned it.

Al-Tirmidhī said: “The ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah is the best and soundest thing on this topic.”

I say: This wording is not a declaration that the ḥadīth is ḥasan, much less ṣaḥīḥ, as is well-known in the science of terminology. The reason seems to be the weakness of Shurayk al-Qāḍī, yet he was not alone in transmitting it; Sufyān al-Thawrī corroborated him by narrating it from al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ.

That version was produced by Abū ʿAwānah in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1/198), al-Ḥākim (1/181), al-Bayhaqī (1/101) and Aḥmad (1/136, 192, 213) through various routes from Sufyān.

Al-Ḥākim said: “Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs,” and al-Dhahabī concurred with him. This, however, is open to question, for al-Bukhārī did not rely upon al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ or his father, so it is only upon Muslim’s criteria.

Al-Dhahabī also said in al-Muhadhdhab (1/22/2): “Its chain is sound.”

From the foregoing it becomes evident that the ḥadīth is authentic by virtue of this corroboration—a point that escaped al-Tirmidhī.