I said: From this perspective, it was recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh," Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah in "Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah" (42/531), Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (1/232/1), and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (1/247). Al-Bukhārī and Ibn Mandah explicitly stated that Ibn Isḥāq narrated it, thus removing the suspicion of his tadlīs, and all other narrators are trustworthy, making it a connected and sound isnād. Al-Khaṭīb narrated in "al-Tārīkh" (3/64) from this perspective only the ḥadīth of the chapter without the story. I have found a supporting narration for it, reported by Ibn Lahīʿah from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb and ʿUqayl from al-Zuhrī from Anas in a marfūʿ form. It was recorded by al-Quḍāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (9/2) through the route of al-Ṭabarānī. This isnād is acceptable for supporting evidence. The story alone, without the ḥadīth, has another route in Muslim (8/119) and Aḥmad (3/281) through Thābit from Anas with a similar narration. Al-Ḥākim included it as an addition to Muslim, but he erred, as did some commentators on "al-Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah" in their assertion that the ḥadīth of the chapter is from the narration of Anas in Muslim. Al-Ḥākim also recorded it from the narration of ʿĀʾishah, and in it is Abū Muʿādh Sulaymān ibn al-Arqam al-Anṣārī, who is very weak. Its extraction and the explanation of its objectionable additions will be detailed under number (4964) in the other book. I said: The ḥadīth is an explicit text indicating that the people of the household (﵃) are subject to the same possibilities of sin as others, except those whom Allāh protects. It is similar to what the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to ʿĀʾishah in the story of the slander: "O ʿĀʾishah! It has reached me about you such and such. If you are innocent, Allāh will exonerate you, and if you have committed a sin, seek forgiveness from Allāh and repent to Him..."