and Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, al-Bukhārī and Muslim, Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Ibn Mardawayh, and al-Bayhaqī in The Branches of Faith, on the authority of Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her.

This is open to question in two respects. First, he attributes it to ʿAbd al-Razzāq and al-Bukhārī, although they recorded it only in abridged form, through another route from Aishah with similar wording; it does not contain the occasion of the verse’s revelation. See al-Muṣannaf (10/392/19460), as well as his Tafsīr (3/279), and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (2024). Second, he did not attribute it to Ibn Mājah or al-Nasāʾī—indeed, not even to Aḥmad, who narrated it in full, as mentioned above. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr (4/323) was even more remiss, attributing it only to Ibn Abī Ḥātim. The imitator al-Ṣābūnī followed him in this in his Abridgement (3/462).

I later found this hadith in Ibn Rāhūyah (4/189/1), through the route of Ibn Abī Mulaykah from Aishah, with the wording: “The Jews came in to see the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, ‘Death be upon you.’ He replied, ‘And upon you.’ Aishah said, ‘Upon you be death, Allah’s wrath, and His curse, O brothers of apes and swine!’ The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘Aishah, be forbearing, and beware of foolishness.’ She said, ‘Did you not hear what they said? They said, “Death be upon you!”’ He said, ‘Have I not answered them? Our supplication against them is answered, whereas theirs against us is not.’”

I say: This is a rare narration, and its chain of transmission is as follows: Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb informed us; Ḥammād ibn Zayd informed us, from Ayyūb [from] Ibn Abī Mulaykah.