he said: "from ʿĀʾishah," thus he connected it from her, and I think it is from Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, who is al-Firyābī. He is a trustworthy and virtuous person, closely associated with Sufyān, who is al-Thawrī. Nevertheless, Ibn ʿAdī and others have criticized some of his ḥadīth from him, so I fear that his connecting this isnād might be among the criticized matters, making it anomalous due to its contradiction with those paths that have it as mursal, or the error might be from those below him, as they are inferior to him in narration. After this clarification and investigation, I do not see it correct for Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr to assert in "al-Tamhīd" (5/278) attributing it to al-Ṣiddīq: "It has come from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq that he disliked ruqyah with anything other than the Book of Allāh, and the scholars are upon that, and he permitted the Jewish woman to perform ruqyah on ʿĀʾishah with the Book of Allāh"! Moreover, it is unreasonable that al-Ṣiddīq would ask a Jewish woman to perform ruqyah on ʿĀʾishah, just as it is unreasonable to ask her to pray for her, and ruqyah is undoubtedly a form of supplication, for Allāh ﷿ says: "And the supplication of the disbelievers is not but in error" (Sūrah Ghāfir, 40:50). The matter becomes even more objectionable if it is considered that "the Book of Allāh" refers to the Noble Qurʾān, as she does not believe in it or its supplications. And if the Torah is intended, that is something that would not come from al-Ṣiddīq, because he knows for certain that the Jews have altered it, changed, and replaced it.

- "When he wanted to marry off one of his daughters, he would sit by her curtain and say: So-and-so mentions so-and-so - naming her and naming the man who mentions her - if she remained silent, he would marry her off, but if she disliked, she would tap the curtain, and if she tapped it, he would not marry her off." It is narrated from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, and Anas ibn Mālik