- ‘Abbad ibn Hamzah.
Reports then came in forms that variously combined or separated all of these narrators:
‘Abbad ibn ‘Abd Allah alone; Fatimah alone; ‘Abbad ibn ‘Abd Allah and Fatimah together; and ‘Abbad ibn Hamzah and Fatimah together.
There is also another route, namely:
- Ibn Abi Mulaykah.
He was originally the narrator from ‘Abbad, from Asma’; but in one narration, he related it directly from Asma’.
This is possible, and it may be an instance of an additional narrator in an otherwise continuous chain of transmission, since he is known to have narrated from her.
There are two other narrators from Asma’ in this hadith:
- Abu Bakr al-Hanafi:
Ahmad (6/352) narrated it through him, from al-Dahhak ibn ‘Uthman, from Wahb ibn Kaysan, from her, attributed to the Prophet.
- Waki‘:
Ahmad (6/353–354) narrated it through him, from Usamah ibn Zayd, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from her, attributed to the Prophet.
Second: The hadith of Aisha:
It is narrated through Ibn Abi Mulaykah himself. Abu Dawud (1700), Ahmad (6/108, 139, and 160), and al-Dulabi in al-Kuna narrated it.