whether ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr narrated it from Umm ʿAṭiyyah with an intermediary or not? And whether al-Ḍaḥḥāk narrated it from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and heard it from him directly or transmitted it without direct attribution? Or did he take it from Umm ʿAṭiyyah? Or did he transmit it from her without direct attribution? All of this is possible." And I say: However, the ḥadīth coming from multiple paths and diverse sources may give it strength, elevating it to the level of ḥasan, especially since the first path was deemed ḥasan by al-Haythamī as previously mentioned, and Allāh knows best. Then I found a corroborating report for al-Kūfī, recorded by al-Ḥākim (3/525) through the route of Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Raqī, who narrated to us from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, from Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Qays, who said: "There was a woman in Medina who practiced circumcision..." the ḥadīth. Al-Ḥākim and al-Dhahabī remained silent on it, and its narrators are trustworthy, except for al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Hilāl al-Raqī and al-Duhalī, about whom the ḥāfiẓ said: there is some weakness. And Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah is from Ḥarrān, so Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Kūfī is not the sole narrator. And Allāh knows best. Al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Qays is a Companion whose hearing is confirmed in more than one ḥadīth, and one of them will be mentioned under number (1189). And I found another supporting narration, reported by Mundal ibn ʿAlī from Ibn Jurayj, from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: "Women from the Anṣār came to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and he said: O women of the Anṣār, dye your hair and perform circumcision, but do not overdo it, for it is more pleasing to your husbands and beware of being ungrateful to those who provide for you." He said: Mundal means the husband."