«فَأَنَا لَقِيتُ زِيَادَ بْنَ مَيْمُونٍ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، فَسَأَلْنَاهُ»
The nominative «ʿAbdu» coordinates Ibn Mahdī with Abū Dāwūd as a participant in meeting Ziyād; it is not accusative like «Ziyāda». The plural «we questioned him» confirms their joint interrogation, and the later dual «antumā» addresses these two investigators. As al-Nawawī explains, its «lā» can be additional or part of a confirmatory question with an omitted interrogative hamzah.
On «ḥadīth al-ʿaṭṭārah», al-Nawawī reports Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ’s explanation: it refers to a lengthy account about a Madinan woman called **al-Ḥawlāʾ**, attributed through Ziyād b. Maymūn from Anas. The extended account is explicitly described as «غَيْرُ صَحِيحٍ»—**not ṣaḥīḥ**. It is a **separate referenced narrative**, not the text of report 76 itself, and should not be used as an established basis for legal rulings.