Abu Dawud said: It is said that Qatadah did not hear anything from Abu Rafi'.

141 - Chapter: Seeking permission during the three times of privacy

5191 - Ibn al-Sarh narrated to us, he said: narrated to us. And Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah ibn Sufyan and Ahmad ibn 'Abadah narrated to us—and this is his narration—they said: Sufyan informed us, from 'Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Yazid, who heard Ibn 'Abbas say: Most people have not believed in the verse of seeking permission, and indeed I command this slave-girl of mine to seek permission to enter upon me.

= And it was also narrated by Ishaq ibn Rahawayh in his "Musnad" (17) via the route of Rawh ibn 'Ubadah, and Ahmad in his "Musnad" (10894), and al-Tahawi in "Sharh Mushkil al-Athar" (1587), and al-Bayhaqi in "al-Kubra" 4/345 via the route of 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Khaffaf, both from Sa'id ibn Abi 'Arubah, from him. And al-Bukhari attached it before the hadith (6246).

And Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated in his "Musannaf" 8/646 from Abu Bakr ibn 'Ayyash, and al-Bukhari in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (1074) from Shu'bah, both from Abu Ishaq, from Abu al-Ahwas, from 'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud who said: When a man is invited, then permission has been granted to him. And this is a sound chain, stopped at the Companion.

And it may be contradicted by what al-Bukhari narrated (6246) from the hadith of Mujahid from Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: I entered with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he found milk in a cup, and he said: "O Abu Hirr, go to the people of al-Suffah and call them to me." He said: So I came to them and called them, and they came and sought permission, and permission was granted to them, and they entered.

Al-Bayhaqi said in "al-Kubra" following the hadith 4/340: And this, in my view—and Allah knows best—applies when there is no woman of the household in the house; but if there is a woman of the household in it, then seeking permission is obligatory after the revelation of the verse of the hijab.

And there are other aspects of reconciliation mentioned by al-Hafiz in "al-Fath" 11/32.

(1) What is confirmed is from (A), and in the rest of our manuscript sources: "was not commanded," and what is confirmed is what agrees with the narration of al-Bayhaqi with the wording: "a verse that most people have not believed in." And what appears in our manuscript sources of his saying: "was not commanded," al-'Azim Abadi said: It is not apparent.

(2) Its narrators are trustworthy. Ibn al-Sarh: he is Ahmad ibn 'Amr ibn 'Abd Allah al-Umawi, and Sufyan: he is Ibn 'Uyaynah.