Note / Clarification: The name "Ibn Jurayj" has dropped out of the chain in our handwritten manuscripts, and the correct view is to include it. It is correctly present in the later narration number (3544) and in "Ithaf al-Maharah" (3517). It is present for all those who recorded this hadith by way of Hajjaj bin Muhammad, and this is the well-known form, because Hajjaj is well known for narrating the narrations of Abu al-Zubayr through "Ibn Jurayj".

Technical note / Defect ('illah): Only here in al-Hakim's narration does it appear that the one who asked was a "man", and this contradicts all the other narrators, according to whom the one who asked was a "woman", and this is what fits the text of the verse. It will come correctly in the next narration.

Grading: This hadith is "sahih", and this chain is "hasan" because of Muhammad bin al-Faraj, and he has been corroborated. (In the chain) Ibn Jurayj is "Abd al-Malik bin Abd al-Aziz al-Makki", and Abu al-Zubayr is "Muhammad bin Muslim bin Tadrus al-Makki".
Reference / Source: And Abu Dawud (2311) recorded it from Ahmad bin Ibrahim al-Dawraqi; and al-Nasa'i (11301) from al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin al-Sabbah. Both narrate it from Hajjaj bin Muhammad with this same chain. The wording is: "Musaykah, who was the (slave girl) of one of the Ansar, came and said".

Reference / Source: Muslim (3029) narrated it by way of Abu Sufyan Talhah bin Nafi', from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him), and he named the Ansari as "Abd Allah bin Ubayy bin Salul".

Details of the narration: And this narration will come later at number (3544) by way of Muhammad bin Ishaq al-Saghani, from Hajjaj.

Note / Clarification: "Al-bigha'" means: fornication (zina).

Note / Clarification: Rather, Muslim did record it, as we have mentioned, but through another route from Jabir with a more complete wording.