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Imam Ahmad (26203), Bazzar in Kashf Astar (50), and Abu Yaala (4704) all narrated it, all of them from the hadith of Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ayesha. Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (150), and narrated it from this same route, with this wording, "Satan will never fail to come to one of you and say, 'Who created the heavens and the earth?' He will say, 'Allah.' Then he will say, 'Who created you?' He will say, 'Allah.' Then he will say, 'Who created Allah?' So when one of you senses that..." and he mentioned the rest of the hadith.It was narrated this way by a number of narrators, among them Dahhak bin Uthman Hizami, Abdullah bin Ajlah, Ismail bin Ayyash, Marwan bin Muawiya, Sufyan Thawri, Layth bin Salim, and others, as mentioned by Daraqutni, all of them from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ayesha.Bazzar said, "This was narrated by more than one narrator from Hisham, from his father, from Abu Hurairah. And by more than one narrator from Ayesha, among them Abu Salih." End of quote.I say, perhaps he intended by this to respond to Abu Zura's judgment that the hadith of Ayesha was mistaken, and his statement, "The sahih hadith is that of Ibn Uyayna, from Hisham, from his father, from Abu Hurairah" in Ilal (2/159). Likewise, Daraqutni in Ilal (14/159) gave preference to it being from the hadith of Abu Hurairah. But this does not preclude Urwa having had two teachers, Abu Hurairah and Ayesha, and for this reason more than one scholar also graded the hadith of Ayesha as sahih.On this subject there is also a hadith from Khuzayma bin Thabit, narrated by Imam Ahmad (21867), Tabarani (3719), and Abu Yaala, all of them via Hasan bin Musa Ashyab, who said, Ibn Lahia narrated to us, Abu Aswad narrated to us, that he heard Urwa narrating from Umara bin Khuzayma, from his father, and he mentioned it. Ibn Abu Asim also narrated it from this same route in Sunnah (650).In the chain is Abdullah bin Lahia, about whom there is well known discussion, and I did not find among those who narrated from him anyone from the Abadila who heard from him before his mind became confused.On this subject there is also a hadith from Abdullah bin Amr, narrated by Tabarani in Mujam al-Awsat (1917) via Ismail bin Abu Uways, who said, Malik bin Anas narrated to us, from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Abdullah bin Amr. Tabarani said, "No one narrated this hadith from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Abdullah bin Amr, except Malik, and no one narrated it from Malik except Ibn Abu Uways. Abu Tahir bin Sarh narrated it alone. The people narrated it from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Abu Hurairah."Haythami mentioned it in Majma (1/34) and attributed it to Tabarani in Awsat and Kabir, saying, "Its narrators are the narrators of sahih, except for Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Nafi Tahhan, the teacher of Tabarani," and he said nothing further about him. It appears he did not know him.