Application of product and sum rule

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Let $(\Omega, \mathcal{A}, P)$ be a measure space. If the probability measure admits a density $p$ it should hold by the product and summation rules that

$\displaystyle p(a|b,c,d) = \int p(a|b,e)p(e|c,d)\mathrm{d}e$

which I am not able to proof.

I can show that

$\displaystyle p(a|b)=\int p(a|b,c)p(c|b)\mathrm{d}c$

but can not reach the result.

This formular is from Bishop's Pattern Recongnition p.31 (1.68), I just renamed and formalized the problem.