Azami 5373

Imam Ahmad (27285) narrated it from Rawh and Muhammad bin Musab, who both said, Uzai narrated to us, from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, from Abu Salama bin Abdul-Rahman, from Umm Maqil Asadiyyah, who said, (and she mentioned it). This is a sahih chain of transmission.I say, this portion of the hadith is sahih. It was narrated by Abu Dawud (1988), Tirmidhi (939), Ibn Majah (2993), Imam Ahmad (27106) and in other places, Ibn Khuzayma (3075), Bayhaqi (4/346), and others besides them, through various routes, along with a story about Umm Maqil. However, the narrators were not precise about the story, just as they were not precise about the wording of the hadith or its chain of transmission, so they deserved to be left out of the sahih collection. Except that when I saw that most of the narrators agreed on the elevated portion of the hadith, which is the statement of the Prophet ﷺ, "Umrah during Ramadan is equivalent to a hajj," and it has sahih supporting narrations, I included it in this book of mine with the most sahih chains of transmission.Hafiz, in Al-Isabah, in the biographical entry on "Abu Maqil" (4/181), attempted to gather these chains of transmission and reconcile them, but he did not succeed in that, and likewise did everyone who attempted it after him.The story of this woman resembles the story of the woman mentioned by Ibn Abbas, so is it one and the same story, or are there multiple accounts? The more likely view is that there are multiple accounts, and Allah knows best.