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==== 🧩 3️⃣ What’s suspicious about this specific narration ====

Here’s the critical observation:
* Dozens of ʿUrwah’s narrations from ʿĀʾishah are preserved in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and others.
* None of ʿUrwah’s Medinan students (like Imām Mālik, al-Zuhrī, Ibn Shihāb, etc.) ever narrated this “6 and 9” report.
* The only person who narrates it is Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from Iraq, in his old age, via Iraqi students.

That’s why scholars like:
* Imam Mālik,
* Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah,
* Ibn ʿAdī,
* al-Dhahabī,

all noted that Hishām’s memory weakened in Iraq, and he began narrating odd reports (gharāʾib) that weren’t known in Medina — this hadith being one of them.