- "He used to kiss me while he was fasting and I was fasting." Meaning ʿĀʾishah. It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (1/374) and Aḥmad (6/179) through two chains from Sufyān, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd Allāh, meaning Ibn ʿUthmān al-Qurashī, from ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā) as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I say: This is a sound chain according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī. Then it was also recorded by Aḥmad (6/134, 175-176, 269-270, 270), as well as by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (p. 83/2), al-Ṭayālisī (1/187), al-Shāfiʿī in "Sunan" (1/260), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/346), al-Bayhaqī (4/223), and Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (215/2) through other chains from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm with the wording: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) wanted to kiss me, so I said: I am fasting! He said: And I am fasting! Then he kissed me." This ḥadīth refutes the narration reported by Muḥammad ibn al-Ashʿath from ʿĀʾishah who said: "He would not touch anything of my face while I was fasting." Its chain is weak as I have clarified in "al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah" number (962). The ḥadīth was attributed by al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Fatḥ" (4/123) with the second wording to al-Nasāʾī. There is another chain for the second part of it from ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā), narrated by Isrāʾīl from Ziyād from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn from her, who said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) used to kiss me while I was fasting." It was recorded by al-Ṭaḥāwī with a sound chain, and Isrāʾīl is Ibn Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, and as for Ziyād, he is Ibn ʿAlāqah. It was also recorded by Aḥmad (6/258) through the chain of Shaybān from Ziyād ibn ʿAlāqah from ʿAmr