al-Shifāʾ, and said, "Show it to me," so she presented it to him. He mentioned the ḥadīth and said, "Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd followed ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, but he differed from him in the isnād and the matn. As for the isnād, he said: from Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Ḥathmah, from al-Shifāʾ bint ʿAbd Allāh. He omitted Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd. As for the matn, he narrated it with the wording: "The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) entered upon us while I was with Ḥafṣah, and he said to me: 'Will you not teach this [woman] the incantation for the ant as you taught her writing?'" He did not mention in it her presenting the incantation to him (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and his command to her regarding the incantation. You will soon understand the importance of this in comprehending the ḥadīth correctly, if Allāh wills. It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/372), Abū Dāwūd (2/154), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār" (2/388), and also by al-Nasāʾī as mentioned in "al-Fatāwá al-Ḥadīthiyyah" by al-Sakhāwī (81/2) and "Nayl al-Awṭār" by al-Shawkānī (8/176). The first narration is more authentic for two reasons: first, that Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd is more reliable than his counterpart ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar