On the authority of ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to kiss some of his wives, then pray without performing ablution. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: There is no hadith in this chapter better than this hadith, even though it is mursal (1).

Al-Aʿmash also narrated this hadith, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah. Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān said: This hadith of Ḥabīb from ʿUrwah from ʿĀʾishah, and the hadith of Ḥabīb from ʿUrwah from ʿĀʾishah: "She prays (2) even if blood drips onto the mat" — there is nothing [requiring ablution] (3).

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(1) The hadith is authentic, but this chain is weak due to its discontinuity. Ibrāhīm al-Taymī — who is Ibn Yazīd — did not hear from ʿĀʾishah, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy except Abū Rawq — who is ʿAṭiyyah ibn al-Ḥārith — for he is ṣadūq [truthful]. Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd: he is al-Qaṭṭān, and Sufyān: he is al-Thawrī.

Abū Dāwūd also narrated it (178) from Muḥammad ibn Bashshār, from Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, with this chain, and he paired with Yaḥyā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī. Abū Dāwūd said: It is mursal; Ibrāhīm al-Taymī did not hear from ʿĀʾishah. He also said: Thus it was narrated by al-Firyābī and others.

Wakīʿ followed Yaḥyā and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, narrating it from Sufyān al-Thawrī, with this chain, as in the Musnad of Aḥmad (25767).

Al-Dāraquṭnī said in al-ʿIlal 9/146: Ibrāhīm ibn Harāsah (who is matrūk [abandoned]) narrated it from al-Thawrī, from Abū Rawq, from Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, similarly, adding in it: "from his father." Muʿāwiyah ibn Hishām followed him in his statement: "from his father," except that he said in it: "The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to kiss while fasting," and thus he came with the correct wording from ʿĀʾishah.

As for Abū Ḥanīfah, he narrated it from Abū Rawq, from Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from Ḥafṣah, the wife of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to kiss, then pray without performing ablution. The hadith is mursal and not established, and the statement of al-Thawrī is more firmly established than the statement of Abū Ḥanīfah. End.

Some imams have declared the hadith authentic, as will come in the commentary on the hadith after it, and the rest of the discussion on it may be seen in the commentary on the hadith of the Musnad (25767).

(2) In (K): "he prays" — and it is an error.

(3) As for the first hadith, the Kūfans declared it authentic, as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned in al-Istidhkār 3/52, and they affirmed Ḥabīb's meeting with ʿUrwah. Al-Ṭabarī also declared it authentic in his Tafsīr 8/396, in the interpretation of the verse =