= Its narrators [are reliable], except that its form is *mursal* (incomplete chain), for Qabīṣah cannot be established to have heard directly from al-Ṣiddīq [Abū Bakr], nor could he have witnessed the incident. Ibn al-Mulaqqin said in *al-Badr al-Munīr* 7/208–209: In any case, it is a proof, for it is either a *mursal* of a Companion, or because it is possible that he heard it afterward from al-Mughīrah or Muḥammad ibn Maslamah. The authentication of it by al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Ḥibbān, and al-Ḥākim—and before them Imām Mālik—is sufficient. Ibn al-Mundhir said: The people of knowledge are unanimous that the grandmother receives one-sixth when there is no mother. And this also supports it.

We say: Some have declared it defective due to discontinuity, such as Ibn Ḥazm, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ishbīlī, and Ibn al-Qaṭṭān al-Fāsī, because Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb was born in the year of the Conquest [of Mecca], so he did not hear from Abū Bakr. However, the people of knowledge have authenticated the *marāsīl* (discontinuous reports) of the likes of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab and other eminent Successors, and counted them as *musnad* (connected) metaphorically, as Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said regarding the narration of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab from ʿUmar. And Qabīṣah is among the senior Successors, and perhaps he heard the incident from Muḥammad ibn Maslamah or from al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah.

It is in *Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik* 2/513, and via another chain it was recorded by Ibn Mājah (2724), al-Tirmidhī (2233), and al-Nasāʾī in *al-Kubrā* (6312). Al-Tirmidhī said: This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth. Al-Nasāʾī did not mention in his narration the story of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb with the other grandmother.

It is in *Musnad Aḥmad* (17980) and *Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān* (6031).

It was also recorded by al-Tirmidhī (2232) and al-Nasāʾī in *al-Kubrā* (6311) via Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, from al-Zuhrī, from a man, from Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb—and according to al-Tirmidhī: al-Zuhrī said, sometimes: Qabīṣah said, and sometimes: from a man from Qabīṣah. Al-Tirmidhī said: The ḥadīth of Mālik is more sound than the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUyaynah. Al-Nasāʾī said following (6308): al-Zuhrī did not hear it from Qabīṣah. Al-Dāraquṭnī said in *al-ʿIlal* 1/248–249: It is likely that the correct [version] is what Mālik and Abū Uways said, and that al-Zuhrī did not hear it from Qabīṣah, but rather heard it from ʿUthmān on his authority.

It was also recorded by Ibn Mājah (2724) and al-Nasāʾī in *al-Kubrā* (6310) via Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī, and by al-Nasāʾī (6305) via Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, and (6306) via al-Awzāʿī, and (6307) via Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, and (6308) via Isḥāq ibn Rāshid, and (6309) via Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah—all of them from al-Zuhrī, from Qabīṣah. =