Hushaym—he is Ibn Bashīr, and he explicitly stated that he heard it from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Isḥāq in Aḥmad’s collection. The ḥadīth is also transmitted through other chains, so it is authentic by virtue of all of them combined. It appears in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under numbers (3606) and (5912).

Aḥmad also recorded it under (1812) and (3378) from Hushaym with this same chain of transmission, except that in it there is: “from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, or from al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās.” Hushaym explicitly stated therein that he narrated it by way of *taḥdīth* (direct oral transmission), thus removing any suspicion of his *tadlīs* (concealment of a weak link).

There is disagreement concerning both the chain of transmission and the text attributed to Yaḥyā ibn Abī Isḥāq:

As for the chain: Hushaym narrated it from him, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās without any doubt, as in this narration and in the forthcoming narration under number (5393). In his two narrations mentioned above in Aḥmad’s collection, Hushaym said: “from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, or from al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās.” Likewise, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah narrated it with doubt, as found in Aḥmad under (3377).

Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn narrated it as will follow under numbers (2643) and (5394), and Shuʿbah as will follow under number (5395)—both of them from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Isḥāq, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, from al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās. But Sulaymān did not hear from al-Faḍl, as the author mentions immediately following narration (5395).

As for the disagreement concerning the text: In this narration of Hushaym, a man asked and said: “My father was overtaken by the ḥajj while he was a very old man who could not stay steady on his mount…” Shuʿbah’s narration is similar, except that the wording of Hushaym’s narration in *Fatḥ al-Bārī* 4/68 is: “A man asked and said: My father died (?)”

In the narration of Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn (2643): “A man came to him and said: O Messenger of Allāh, my mother is an old woman, advanced in age…”

In the narration of Ibn ʿUlayyah in Aḥmad (3377): “A man came and said: My father—or my mother; Yaḥyā said: My strongest assumption is that he said: my father—is old and has not performed the ḥajj…”

Maʿmar said following his narration from al-Zuhrī in the *Musnad* of Abū Yaʿlā (6737): “Yaḥyā ibn Abī Isḥāq used to narrate that he heard Sulaymān ibn Yasār say that it was a woman who asked about her mother.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar mentioned this disagreement concerning Yaḥyā ibn Abī Isḥāq in *Fatḥ al-Bārī* 4/68, and mentioned other narrations of the ḥadīth found in Ibn Mājah, al-Ṭabarānī, and Ibn Khuzaymah. He clarified that the man’s name was Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAwf al-Khathʿamī. Then he reconciled these narrations, saying: “What appears to me from the totality of these chains is that the questioner was a man, and his daughter was with him, and she also asked. The one asked about was the man’s father and his mother.”