that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) addressed the women and said to them: ... and he mentioned it. Zāʾidah followed him in narrating from ʿĀṣim with a similar narration. It was narrated by al-Bazzār in "al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār" (5/139/1729), and Abū Yaʿlá (5085). I say: This isnād is good; its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of Muslim, except that ʿĀṣim—who is Ibn Bahdalah—was only narrated from when paired with another. And Ḥammād is Ibn Salamah, and he was followed. Al-Ṭabarānī said in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (7/44/6073): Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Suwayd narrated to us, he said: ʿUthmān ibn al-Haytham narrated to us, he said: my father narrated from ʿĀṣim with it. And he said: "No one narrated it from ʿĀṣim except al-Haytham ibn Juhm, and ʿUthmān ibn al-Haytham was unique in narrating it." I say: This isnād is also good; except for Ibn Abī Suwayd, who was weakened by Ibn ʿAdī, as I clarified under another ḥadīth of his with this isnād in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" (6817). However, he was followed, as al-Ṭabarānī said in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (10/232/10414): Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Shīrāzī narrated to us: ʿUthmān ibn al-Haytham the muezzin narrated it with it; except he said: "not because of them!" So perhaps "not" is an insertion. I say: Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Shīrāzī was not given a biography except by al-Dhahabī in "Tārīkh al-Islām" with a very brief entry, which only mentions that he narrated in Mecca from Ḥajjāj ibn Naṣīr al-Fasāṭīṭī, and from him al-Ṭabarānī. Shaykh al-Anṣārī did not add anything to this in "Bulghatuhu" (p. 16)! Although the mentioned narration from Ḥajjāj was only known to al-Dhahabī from "al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr" of al-Ṭabarānī, and it contains another benefit, which is the date of the narration and death,