and Muḥāḍir ibn al-Mūdaʿ, and he and al-Nasāʾī narrated from ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān, all of them from Hishām from his father from Umm Salamah. This is the preserved version, and ʿUrwah's hearing from Umm Salamah is possible, as he lived more than thirty years of her life, and they were in the same city." This strongly indicates support for Imām Muslim's view that contemporaneity with the possibility of meeting suffices to establish a connection, even though al-Bukhārī's condition of proving a meeting at least once is stronger. However, it is a condition of completeness, not a condition of validity, as I have clarified in several places, including what was mentioned under ḥadīth (2979). As for the wording of ʿAbdah in al-Nasāʾī (2/37): from Umm Salamah who said: "O Messenger of Allāh! I have not performed the farewell circumambulation." The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "If the prayer is established (in another narration: when the people pray the morning prayer), then circumambulate on your camel from behind the people." Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (23/266/571 and 408/981) through other paths from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, and the other narration is his narration. Some of the early scholars thought that this ḥadīth contradicts in both chain and text the narration of Mālik through his chain from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr from Zaynab bint Abī Salamah from Umm Salamah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā), the wife of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), who said: "I complained to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) that I was in pain, so he said: 'Circumambulate from behind the people while you are riding.'" So I circumambulated while the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) was praying beside the House, and he was reciting *(By the Mount, and a Book inscribed)*. Agreed upon (1)