otherwise it would be incomplete. For all these reasons, it was necessary for me to thoroughly examine these evidences, or as many of them as possible, from the two aspects I mentioned: the strength and completeness of the testimony, or the opposite, and to clarify the matter. So I say: 1 - The ḥāfiẓ mentioned two routes for the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah, indicating that one of them is very weak. Because al-Bukhārī said about it: "rejected in ḥadīth." This places it at the lowest level of weakness according to him, as is known. He remained silent about the other route, so it was necessary to clarify its condition and the text of its matn. So I say: It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (15/16 - its additions): Hārūn ibn Kāmil narrated to us, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us, Ibrāhīm ibn Suwayd al-Madanī narrated to us, Abū Ḥazrah Yaʿqūb ibn Mujāhid informed me, ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr informed me from ʿĀʾishah from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) who said: and he mentioned it in full similarly except that he said: "If he calls me, I will respond to him" instead of "If he seeks my refuge, I will grant him refuge." And he said: "It was not narrated from Abū Ḥazrah except by Ibrāhīm. Nor from ʿUrwah except by Abū Ḥazrah and ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Maymūn." I said: This isnād consists of narrators all of whom are trustworthy, well-known, and mentioned in "al-Tahdhīb" except for Hārūn ibn Kāmil, who is Egyptian as mentioned in "Muʿjam al-Ṭabarānī al-Ṣaghīr" p. (232), and I did not find a biography for him. If not for him, the isnād would be good. But it appears from the previous words of al-Ṭabarānī that he did not narrate it exclusively. For he mentioned the exclusivity for Ibrāhīm, the teacher of his teacher. Al-Haythamī mentioned the ḥadīth (10/269) with its first part, then said: "It was narrated by al-Bazzār with this wording, and by Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ.' In it is ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Qays, who was deemed trustworthy by some and weakened by others. The rest of Aḥmad's narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ, and the narrators of al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ' are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ except for his teacher Hārūn ibn Kāmil!" I said: Yaʿqūb ibn Mujāhid and Ibrāhīm ibn Suwayd are not among the narrators of the "Ṣaḥīḥ," but al-Bukhārī included them in "al-Adab al-Mufrad."