and the narrators of al-Dāraquṭnī are trustworthy. Abū Ḥumayd is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Tamīm al-Maṣīṣī, and he was deemed reliable by al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Ḥibbān (8/367). Ḥajjāj is Ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣīṣī al-Aʿwar. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "He is trustworthy and reliable; however, he became confused at the end of his life when he came to Baghdad before his death." I say: but he was corroborated by Abū ʿĀṣim—who is al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Makhlad al-Nabīl, the trustworthy and reliable—in the matter of ḥajj as previously mentioned. Al-Bazzār narrated it in full; however, he did not mention the matter of ḥajj, and said: "The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) disliked that." Al-Haythamī said (4/326): "The narrators of al-Bazzār are the narrators of (al-Ṣaḥīḥ)." Al-Ḥāfiẓ mentioned in "al-Fatḥ" (4/76) the ḥadīth of the chapter with the wording of al-Dāraquṭnī's narration, and said: "Abū ʿAwānah authenticated it." He mentioned it in "al-Dirāyah" (2/4) with the wording of the chapter from the narration of al-Bazzār, then said: "Al-Dāraquṭnī narrated it similarly, and its chain is authentic, and it is in 'al-Ṣaḥīḥayn' from this route with the wording: A woman should not travel except with a maḥram." I say: and this is referenced in "al-Irwāʾ" under number (995) from the narration of Sufyān from ʿAmr on it, and he added: