“This Muhammad is weak.” 2- As for the hadith of Aishah, it was recorded by al-Bukhari (nos. 3 and 7), Ibn Majah (1/277), al-Tahawi (1/127) and Ahmad (6/275) through Muhammad ibn Ishaq, who said: “Yahya ibn Abbad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr narrated to me from his father, from her.” The chain is also sound. Al-Tabarani related it as well in al-Saghir (p. 51) through another route from her, but that isnad contains Ibn Luhayʿah. 3- As for the hadith of Jabir, al-Darqutni (p. 124) transmitted it from Yahya ibn Sallam—Malik ibn Anas—Wahb ibn Kaysan—from Jabir with the wording: “Every prayer in which Umm al-Kitab (the Opening chapter) is not recited is defective, unless one is following an imam.” Al-Darqutni added: “Yahya ibn Sallam is weak, and the correct version is mawquf.” I say: Malik also narrated it in the Muwattaʾ (1/105) as a mawquf report, and al-Bayhaqi (1/160) cited it through him, then remarked: “This is the sound report from Jabir as his own statement, not raised to the Prophet. It has been raised by Yahya ibn Sallam and others among the weak narrators from Malik, and such a version must not be used as proof.” Ibn al-Turkumani replied: “Al-Bayhaqi stated in the Khilafiyyat that Ismail ibn Musa al-Saddi likewise transmitted it from Malik with an elevated chain. Ismail is reliable; al-Nasaʾi said there is nothing objectionable about him, and Ibn ʿAdi said people accepted and narrated from him—what they disapproved of was only his extremism and Shiʿi leanings.”