I say: The chain of transmission is composed entirely of trustworthy narrators—indeed, men who figure in the Ṣaḥīḥ collections—save that Simāk’s reports from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent. Toward the end of his life his memory changed, and he would at times have to be prompted, as stated in al-Taqrīb.

As for the ḥadīth of ʿUbadah ibn al-Ṣāmit, it is transmitted by al-Fuḍayl ibn Sulaymān who said, “Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah related to us from Isḥāq ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿUbadah ibn al-Ṣāmit, from ʿUbadah,” raised to the Prophet with that wording. Ibn Mājah and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad recorded it in the Zawāʾid of the Musnad (5/326).

I say: This isnād is weak; it is interrupted between ʿUbadah and his grandson Isḥāq. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said, “He narrated it as a mursal report from ʿUbadah, and he himself is of unknown standing.”

Regarding the report from ʿĀʾishah, two routes are cited from her:

1. Al-Wāqidī relates: “Khārijah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān ibn Zayd ibn Thābit informed us, from Abū’l-Rijāl, from ʿAmrah, from her.” Al-Dāraqutnī produced it (p. 522). Ibn Rajab remarked, “Al-Wāqidī is abandoned, and there is disagreement over the weakness of his shaykh.”

2. From Rūḥ ibn Ṣalāḥ: “Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb narrated to us from Abū Suhayl, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, from her;” and from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Sabrah, from Nāfiʿ ibn Mālik Abū Suhayl, from al-Qāsim with the same report. Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Awsat and said, “No one narrated it from al-Qāsim except Nāfiʿ ibn Mālik.”

I say: He is trustworthy—both Ṣaḥīḥs rely upon him—yet, as Ibn Rajab noted, both chains leading to him are weak. In the first, Rūḥ ibn Ṣalāḥ is weak; in the second, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Sabrah is even weaker. Ibn Ḥajar said in al-Taqrīb: