Azami 6541

Ahmad (15209) and Bazzar in Kashf Astar (1432) both narrated it, from the hadith of Ajlah, from Abu Zubayr, from Jabir, and he mentioned it. Its chain would be hasan on account of Ajlah, who is Ibn Abdullah bin Hujayya, for there is disagreement about him, though he narrates hasan hadith when there are corroborating reports, were it not that he was inconsistent in this narration. At one time he narrated it in this manner from the musnad of Jabir, at another time from the musnad of Ibn Abbas, as Ibn Majah (1900) narrated it from him, from Abu Zubayr, from Ibn Abbas, who said, Ayesha married off a relative of hers from the Ansar. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came and said, "Have you given the girl as a gift in marriage?" then he mentioned something similar. At a third time he narrated it from Abu Zubayr, from Jabir, from Ayesha, that she married off a relative of hers from the Ansar, and she mentioned something similar.The hadith has other paths as well, which is what Tabarani narrated in Awsat (3265) through the route of Muhammad bin Abu Sari Asqalani, who said, Abu Isam Rawwad bin Jarra informed us, from Sharik bin Abdullah, from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ayesha, that the Prophet ﷺ said, "What happened to so-and-so?" referring to an orphan girl who had been in her care. I said, "We gave her as a gift to her husband." He said, "Did you send with her a girl who beats the tambourine and sings?" She said, "What would she say?" He said, she would say,We have come to you, we have come to you, so greet us as we greet you. Were it not for red gold, your valley would not have been graced. Were it not for the dark grain, your maidens would not have grown plump.Tabarani said, "No one narrated it from Hisham except Sharik, and no one narrated it from him except Rawwad. Muhammad bin Abu Sari narrated it alone." I say, Sharik has weak memory, and the narrator from him, Rawwad bin Jarra Abu Isam, is disputed, for Nasai and Daraqutni graded him daif, while Darimi deemed him trustworthy. Ahmad said, "A follower of the sunnah, there is no harm in him." I say, but he became confused toward the end of his life and so was abandoned, as stated in Taqrib.In the Musnad of Imam Ahmad (26313), from Ayesha, who said, there was a girl from the Ansar under my guardianship, and I married her off. She said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came in to see me on the day of her wedding, and he did not hear any playing, so he said, "O Ayesha, this tribe of the Ansar loves such and such." Ahmad narrated it from Yaqub and Saad, who both said, our father narrated to us, from Muhammad bin Ishaq, who said, Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Harith Taymi narrated to me, from Ishaq bin Sahl bin Abu Hathma, from his father, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it.Ibn Hibban extracted it in his Sahih (5875), narrating it from Yaqub bin Ibrahim bin Saad with his chain, with the wording, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came in to see me on the day of her wedding, and he did not hear any singing or playing, so he said, "O Ayesha, did you sing over her, or do you not sing?" Then he said, "This tribe of the Ansar loves singing."In it is Ishaq bin Sahl bin Abu Hathma, whom no one mentioned as trustworthy except Ibn Hibban, for he mentioned him in Thiqat (22/4), and he did not mention any narrator from him except Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Harith Taymi, so he is counted among the unknown narrators. However, the collective weight of these various paths, despite their differing sources, indicates the soundness of its foundation, as it is also extracted in Sahih Bukhari from the hadith of Ayesha.