"the narration of ʿAṭāʾ from ʿĀʾishah is not used as evidence unless he says: I heard." And the ḥadīth is authentic, as it has other routes and supporting evidences found in "al-Irwāʾ" (1116). I only mentioned it here for the story of the woman with ʿĀʾishah, and her saying "no," as it explicitly indicates that the ʿaqīqah is not fulfilled with anything other than sheep. There is another route for this, reported by al-Bayhaqī (9/301) and others through Ibn Abī Mulaykah, who said: A boy was born to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr, so it was said to ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā): O Mother of the Believers, offer a camel for him. She replied: Allāh forbid, but the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "Two comparable sheep." Its isnād is good as I have clarified in "al-Irwāʾ" (4/390). It was also reported by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in "al-Muṣannaf" (4/328/7956) and from him by Ibn Ḥazm (1/317) through another route from Ḥafṣah bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from ʿĀʾishah. In it, Ḥafṣah gave birth to a boy for al-Mundhir ibn al-Zubayr, so it was said to her: Why don't you offer a camel for your son? She replied: Allāh forbid! My aunt ʿĀʾishah used to say: For a boy, two sheep, and for a girl, one sheep. Its isnād is authentic, and it was reported by al-Tirmidhī and others as a marfūʿ ḥadīth without mentioning the camel or her saying Allāh forbid. It is referenced there. Then I saw that Ibn Rāhawayh said in another place in his "Musnad" (4/149/1): Yaʿlá ibn ʿUbayd informed us, ʿAbd al-Malik informed us from ʿAṭāʾ from Abū Karz from Umm Karz who said: A woman from the family of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr said: If a woman of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān gives birth... the ḥadīth is similar to the narration of Ibn Idrīs. Then he also narrated it following this ḥadīth of Yaʿlá. It becomes clear from this that it is disconnected, rather it is muʿḍal, between ʿAṭāʾ and ʿĀʾishah, [with] Abū Karz from Umm Karz