Is the addition "Ibn Shihab said: 'I have not heard that lying is permitted in anything people say, except in three matters: war, reconciling between people, and a man's conversation with his wife and a woman's conversation with her husband'" from the mursal narrations of Az-Zuhri, or did Muslim narrate it as connected to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in another place?
The preponderant opinion is that the addition in the hadith of Umm Kulthum bint Uqbah: "And I did not hear of a concession being granted for anything people say as a lie except in three matters: war, reconciling between people, and a man's talk to his wife and a woman's talk to her husband," is from the words of Ibn Shihab Al-Zuhri and is not مرفوعة (attributable) to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. A number of scholars have explicitly stated this, among them Al-Daraqutni, Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi, and Ibn Hajar, basing their arguments on narrations from more reliable transmitters from Al-Zuhri, such as Yunus and Ma'mar, which distinguished between the words of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and the words of Al-Zuhri.
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