He narrated it to us: ʿAmr al-Nāqid, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī, and ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, all of them from Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd. He narrated to us: my father, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, from Ibn Shihāb, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ informed me that Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ informed him that ʿUthmān and ʿĀʾishah told him that Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq sought permission to enter upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Then he mentioned the like of the ḥadīth of ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī.