“He did not hear from ʿĀʾishah.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ rebutted this claim in al-Tahdhīb, and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim contains a narration of Abū al-Jawzāʾ from her.

There is disagreement concerning Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī. Al-Dāraquṭnī and others graded him trustworthy, and Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt (8/148). I find no criticism of him among those who impugned him, other than that he became senile. Hence, al-Dhahabī said no more about him in al-Mughnī than:

“Ṣāliḥ Jazrah said: ‘Truthful, but he became senile.’”

Thus, someone like him may be cited in corroboration. Moreover, he was corroborated: Aḥmad (6/260–261) said: Yūnus narrated to us; Ḥammād—that is, Ibn Zayd—narrated to us through the same chain.

This is an authentic chain of transmission, were it not for what has already been explained. For this Yūnus is Yūnus ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Muʾaddib: a trustworthy and precise narrator, relied upon by al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

Yet this additional wording has been authentically established through two other routes from ʿĀʾishah. One of them is through Abū Burdah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, lost consciousness while his head was in my lap. I began wiping him and supplicating for his recovery. When he regained consciousness, he said: ‘No; rather, I ask Allah for the Highest Companion, with Gabriel, Michael, and Isrāfīl.’”

Al-Nasāʾī recorded it in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah (no. 1097) and in al-Sunan al-Kubrá (4/260/7104), as did Ibn Ḥibbān (8/199/6557), through Sufyān, from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, from Abū Burdah, with this wording. Al-Nasāʾī said: