through several routes from ʿAbdullāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhzūmī, with the same report. Al-Ḥākim said:

“Its chain of transmission is authentic.”

Al-Dhahabī objected, saying:

“I say: It is not continuous.”

I say: Outwardly, it has the form of a mursal report, since Umm Bakr—who was the daughter of al-Miswar ibn Makhramah—said: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf sold ...” She did not live to meet him. Yet the apparent meaning of the account’s context is that she received it from her father, as indicated by her statement in it: “Al-Miswar said: ‘I entered upon ʿĀʾishah ...’” Thus, the chain is continuous. Shaykh al-Bannā al-Sāʿātī was inclined to this view in al-Fatḥ al-Rabbānī, as our virtuous brother Waṣī Allāh related in his annotation on al-Faḍāʾil.

I say: This is further supported by the narration of al-Ṭabarānī and Ibn ʿAsākir, through several routes from al-Makhzūmī, from Umm Bakr, from al-Miswar ibn Makhramah, that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ...

The only defect in the hadith is this Umm Bakr, for she is known only through this narration. For this reason, al-Dhahabī said in the section on unknown women in al-Mīzān:

“Only her nephew’s son, ʿAbdullāh ibn Jaʿfar, narrated from her.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb:

“Acceptable.”

However, the portion attributed to the Prophet in the hadith of ʿĀʾishah has another chain from her, and it explicitly states that the closing words, “May Allah grant Ibn ʿAwf drink ...,” are ʿĀʾishah’s own words. They were therefore interpolated into the hadith of Umm Bakr. For that reason, I separated them from the report attributed to the Prophet and placed them outside the quotation marks. It is referenced in