This is a sound ḥadīth with an elevated chain. The two Imams included it in their Ṣaḥīḥ collections through several routes from al-Zuhrī. (1)
- Umm al-Dardāʾ the Younger — Hujaymah al-Himyarīyah
A Damascene lady of rank, learning, and jurisprudence, named Hujaymah. Some say her name was Juhaymah, that she was Awsābīyah, Himyarīyah, and Damascene; she is the one known as Umm al-Dardāʾ the Younger.
She transmitted a large body of knowledge from her husband Abū al-Dardāʾ, as well as from Salmān al-Fārisī, Kaʿb ibn ʿĀṣim al-Ashʿarī, ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, and others. While still a girl she recited the Qurʾān to Abū al-Dardāʾ. She lived to an advanced age and became renowned for her learning, practice, and asceticism.
Those who narrated from her include: Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Abū Qilābah al-Jarmī, Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah, Yūnus ibn Maysarah, Makḥūl, ʿAṭāʾ al-Kaykhāranī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī al-Muhājir, Zayd ibn Sālim, Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAblah, and ʿUthmān ibn Ḥayyān al-Murrī.
Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī said: “Umm al-Dardāʾ is Hujaymah bint Ḥuyayy al-Waṣṣābiyyah, (2) while Umm al-Dardāʾ the Elder is Khayrah bint Abī Ḥadrad, who enjoyed the rank of Companionship.”