accounts from Hushaym: Abū al-Zubayr informed us from Jābir who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said... and he mentioned it. I said: Abū al-Zubayr did not explicitly state hearing it from them all; he is a known mudallis [one who omits the name of the transmitter he directly heard from]; and I did not see it narrated by al-Layth ibn Saʿd from him by any of them or others; but it is similar in meaning to what ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr narrated that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ told him: that a group from Banū Hāshim entered upon Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, and Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq entered—she was his wife at that time—and he disliked that, so he mentioned it to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: I saw nothing but good! The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "Indeed, Allāh has cleared her of that." Then the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) stood on the pulpit and said: "No man should enter upon a woman whose husband is absent after this day except with one or two men." It was recorded by Muslim (7/8), al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (9217), and in "Faḍāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah" (284), Ibn Ḥibbān (5585 - al-Muʾassasah), al-Bayhaqī (7/90), and Aḥmad (2/171, 186, 213), and he added in a narration: "ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr said: I did not enter upon a woman whose husband is absent after that day except with one or two men." (Clarifications): First: His statement in the ḥadīth of the chapter: "a married woman"; this is how it appears in "Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim," "Tārīkh Baghdād," and a narration of al-Bayhaqī. In the narration of Abū Yaʿlá and Ibn Ḥibbān, it appears as: "a woman in a house," while Ibn Abī Shaybah and al-Nasāʾī omitted both terms: "married" and "house," which is a narration of al-Bayhaqī! Perhaps the most likely correct version is the narration of Muslim, as it agrees with the ḥadīth of Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays. And Allāh the Exalted knows best