and this chain of narration consists of narrators who are all reliable, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj, who is weak in terms of his memory, though not accused of dishonesty. Ibn ʿAdī said: "He is not to be used as evidence, he is average." Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: "His place is truthfulness." I said: Someone like him can be used for support but not as evidence, especially when he contradicts reliable narrators, as in his statement in this chain: "from his father from his grandfather from ʿUmar," which is one of his mistakes, not from those above him, for they are reliable. The correct version is: "from his father from ʿAmrah from ʿĀʾishah," as previously mentioned in the narration of the group. In any case, the agreement of these four on narrating this ḥadīth from Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr is definitive proof that it has an origin from him because it is unlikely that they would all coincidentally make the same mistake. If they differ regarding him, the consideration is given to the narration of the group, which you have come to know. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb also followed them. This is found in al-Ṭaḥāwī (3/129). This ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz is reliable, as are those below him, so it is a sound chain of narration. I have also found another route for it from ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā). Al-Ṭabarānī said in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (1/185/1): Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī informed us: Isḥāq ibn Zayd al-Khaṭṭābī informed us: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn (Abī) Dāwūd informed us: al-Muthanná Abū Ḥātim al-ʿAṭṭār informed us: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAyzār from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad from her that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it without the addition. He said: "No one narrated it from ʿUbayd Allāh except al-Muthanná, and no one from him except Muḥammad and Rayḥān ibn Saʿīd." I said: This is a weak chain of narration. This al-Muthanná is Ibn Bakr al-Baṣrī. Al-ʿUqaylī said (p. 429): "He is not followed in his ḥadīth."