3339—“The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, would suffer from pain in his side, and it became exceedingly severe. One day it overcame him, and he lost consciousness, to the point that we thought he had died in his bed. We administered a medicinal draught through the side of his mouth. When he regained consciousness, he realized that we had done so and said: ‘Did you think that Allah would afflict me with pleurisy? Allah would never give it power over me. By Allah, no one in the house shall remain without being given the draught, except my uncle al-ʿAbbās.’”

She said: “No one in the house remained without being given the draught. Then one of his wives said, ‘I am fasting!’ They said, ‘Do you think we would leave you alone after the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “No one in the house shall remain without being given the draught”?!’ So we gave it to her while she was fasting.”

Aḥmad narrated it (6/118): “Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd narrated to us”; Ibn Saʿd (2/235): “Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabāḥ informed us”; and Abū Yaʿlā (8/353–354): “Muḥammad ibn Bakkār narrated to us.” They said—and the wording is Ibn Saʿd’s—“ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād informed us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah,” who said: … and he mentioned it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are among those relied upon by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, except that al-Bukhārī cited Ibn Abī al-Zinād only in suspended form (1), and Muslim in the Introduction, because his memory was weak. However, al-Dhahabī considered his hadith good, especially in the narrations of the Medinans from him. Al-Ḥāfiẓ alluded to this in al-Taqrīb, saying: “Truthful, but his memory deteriorated when he came to Baghdad.”