He exempted from among the Baghdadis who narrated from him Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Hāshimī, saying:

“His hadiths from him are acceptable.”

Ibn Maʿīn said:

“He is the most reliable of people in his narrations from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah.”

I say: As you can see, this hadith is among his narrations from him, and in Aḥmad it was narrated from him by Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Hāshimī. It is therefore among the sound portion of his hadith, Allah willing. Perhaps for this reason al-Ḥāfiẓ passed over it without comment in al-Fatḥ (8/148), attributing it only to Ibn Saʿd.

It also has another chain of transmission and a corroborating report.

As for the chain of transmission, al-Ḥākim (4/405) and Aḥmad (6/274) narrated it through Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, who said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr narrated to me, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who related to him:

When they said, “We feared that the Messenger of Allah had pleurisy,” the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “It is from Satan, and Allah would not grant it power over me.”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission, for Ibn Isḥāq explicitly stated that he heard it directly. Al-Ḥākim said:

“This hadith meets Muslim’s conditions.”

Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

Muslim only cited Ibn Isḥāq in supporting narrations, but he has been corroborated in the first chain; thus, in this respect, it meets Muslim’s conditions. And Allah knows best.

As for the corroborating report, Aḥmad (6/438) narrates it: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; Maʿmar narrated to us, from—