Al-Ḥākim said: “I heard the righteous shaykh Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Quṭīʿī say, ‘Makram ibn Miḥriz narrated to us from his forefathers,’ and he cited the report. I asked him, ‘Did you actually hear it from Makram?’ He replied, ‘Indeed—by Allah. My father took me on pilgrimage when I was seven years old and brought me in to Makram.’

Al-Bayhaqī likewise recorded it in the chapter concerning the Prophet’s ﷺ passage by the tents of Umm Maʿbad, through the chain of al-Ḥasan ibn Makram and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Qaysī. They both said: “Abū Aḥmad Bishr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī al-Sukkārī related to us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Wahb al-Madhḥijī related to us; al-Ḥurr ibn al-Ṣiyāḥ narrated to us, from Abū Maʿbad al-Khuzaʿī: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out with Abū Bakr, ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah, and their guide ʿAbd Allāh ibn Urayqiṭ al-Laythī—so he said “al-Laythī,” though he is actually al-Dīlī—they passed by the tents of Umm Maʿbad, and he recounted the report in full.”

Her phrase “ẓāhir al-waḍāʾah” (open radiance) means manifest beauty.

• murmilīn — their provisions had been exhausted.
• musnitayn — they had entered a year of drought and hardship.
• kasr al-khaymah — the side of the tent.
• tafājjat — the animal spread its hind legs apart.
• yarbuḍ al-raht — he gave the company drink until they grew heavy and sat; a raht is a group of three to ten.
• thajj — a gushing flow.
• bahāʾ — the pure whiteness of milk-foam; hence, “they drank until arḍaw,” that is, until their thirst was fully quenched (as some narrations state).
• tasāwukna — they swayed from weakness; it is also narrated as tashārakna, meaning that emaciation had afflicted them all.