Azami 4658

Nasai narrated it in Al-Kubra (10647) from Abbas bin Abdul-Azim, who said, "Hashim bin Qasim narrated to us, Ashjai narrated to us, from Sufyan Thawri, from Alqama bin Marthad, from Sulayman bin Burayda, from Ayesha," and he mentioned it. Its chain is sahih, and Ashjai is Ubaydullah bin Ubaydul-Rahman Ashjai Kufi, who is trustworthy, and the most reliable of people in his written record regarding Thawri.Tirmidhi (3513), Ibn Majah (3850), Imam Ahmad (25384), Nasai in Amal al-Yawm wal-Layla (872, 873, 874), and Hakim (1/530) all narrated it through another route from Abdullah bin Burayda, from Ayesha, in similar fashion. Tirmidhi said, "Hasan sahih," and Hakim said, "Sahih according to the standard of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim)." Nawawi also graded it sahih in Al-Adhkar.However, Nasai said, "It is mursal," meaning there is a disconnection between Abdullah bin Burayda and Ayesha. And Daraqutni claimed in his Sunan (3557), "He never heard anything from Ayesha."I say, I have not found that anyone before him among the scholars, such as Ali bin Madini, Ibn Main, Bukhari, and others, explicitly stated that he did not hear from Ayesha. The fact that he did not explicitly state that he heard from her does not negate the existence of such hearing. Moreover, he is not known as one who practiced tadlis, so his use of "an" (indicating transmission without explicit statement of hearing) should be taken as indicating a connected chain, provided that contemporaneity between him and his source is established, and it is indeed established, since he was born in the year 15 AH and died in the year 115 AH. His brother, Sulayman bin Burayda, did hear from Ayesha, and the two of them were twins.