I said: This is a sound chain of transmission, even though its apparent form is mursal [interrupted], because ʿUrwah is the son of al-Zubayr and the son of ʿĀʾishah's sister, Asmāʾ, so ʿĀʾishah is his maternal aunt. Thus, it is understood to be connected. It has been reported as such, as Aḥmad said (6/186) and al-Dūlābī in "al-Kuná wa-al-Asmāʾ" (1/152): "ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ Abū Ḥafṣ al-Muʿīṭī narrated to us, saying: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated from his father from ʿĀʾishah with a similar account and with an addition." This is also a sound chain of transmission, as Abū Ḥātim said about this ʿUmar: there is no harm in him, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt." Ḥammād ibn Zayd also corroborated it, saying: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated it. It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (490), Aḥmad (6/107, 260), and Abū Yaʿlá (Q 214/2). Wakīʿ narrated it, saying: from Hishām from a man from the descendants of al-Zubayr from her. It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/186, 213). This man is ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr as in the narration of Ḥammād ibn Zayd, ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ, and Maʿmar as previously mentioned. It was also narrated by Qurān ibn Tamām as Abū Dāwūd said. It was narrated by Abū Usāmah, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, and Muslimah ibn Qaʿnib from Hishām, naming the man as: "ʿAbbād ibn Ḥamzah," who is the son of ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Zubayr. He is trustworthy, so he is from the descendants of al-Zubayr. It is possible that he is the one Hishām meant in Wakīʿ's narration. Whether it is this or that, the ḥadīth is sound because it is either from ʿUrwah or from ʿAbbād, and both are trustworthy. The more likely scenario is that it is from both of them together, as the soundness of the narrations from each of them suggests