Their hearing it from Abū Isḥāq occurred at different times, and even though Shuʿbah and al-Thawrī were more precise and more firmly established than all of those who narrated this ḥadīth from Abū Isḥāq, their narration is in my view more fitting and more correct, because Shuʿbah and al-Thawrī heard this ḥadīth from Abū Isḥāq in a single sitting. What indicates that is:

1128 — Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to us, Abū Dāwūd narrated to us, Shuʿbah informed us, saying: I heard Sufyān al-Thawrī ask Abū Isḥāq: "Did you hear Abū Burdah say: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'There is no marriage except with a guardian'?" He said: "Yes."

This ḥadīth indicates that Shuʿbah and al-Thawrī heard this ḥadīth at the same time, and Isrāʾīl is firmly established in [narrating from] Abū Isḥāq.

I heard Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā say: I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī say: Nothing that I missed of al-Thawrī's ḥadīth from Abū Isḥāq escaped me, except because I relied upon Isrāʾīl for it, for he used to produce it more completely.

The ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah in this chapter from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him — "There is no marriage except with a guardian" — is a good (ḥasan) ḥadīth. Ibn Jurayj narrated it from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh and Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah also narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

And it was narrated from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, likewise.