I say: This chain of transmission is good. Its narrators are trustworthy—men relied upon by al-Bukhārī—except for ʿImrān, the son of Dāwar; he is truthful, though he makes mistakes, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Abū Dāwūd has also cited this ḥadīth in this chapter in a suspended form.

216 – “Rather, you are Ḥasānah al-Muzaniyyah.”

Ibn al-Aʿrābī recorded it in his Muʿjam (folio 75/2); al-Qudaʿī transmitted it from him in Musnad al-Shihāb (folio 82/1); and al-Ḥākim included it in al-Mustadrak (1/15-16) through the route of Ṣāliḥ ibn Rustum, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“An elderly woman came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was with me. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked her, ‘Who are you?’ She replied, ‘I am Juthāmah al-Muzaniyyah.’ He said, ‘No; you are Ḥasānah al-Muzaniyyah. How are you all? How is your condition? How have you been since we were last with you?’ She answered, ‘We are well—may my father and mother be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah.’

When she left I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, do you show such attention to this old woman?’ He replied, ‘She used to visit us during Khadījah’s time, and keeping faith with old ties is part of faith.’ ”

Al-Ḥākim remarked, “This is a ḥadīth authentic according to the criterion of the Two Shaykhs, for both of them relied upon its narrators in many reports, and it has no hidden defect.” So he claimed—and al-Dhahabī concurred. Yet Ṣāliḥ ibn Rustum, who is Abū ʿĀmir al-Khazzāz al-Baṣrī, was not