Among the rulings that pertain to a woman’s ritual bath:

His words: “It is reported from ʿĀʾishah that Asmāʾ bint Yazīd asked the Prophet ﷺ about the ghusl (ritual bath) taken after menstruation. He replied, ‘Let one of you take her water and lotus-leaf powder, then wash with it … after that she should take a cloth scented with musk and cleanse herself with it.’ Asmāʾ said, ‘How is she to cleanse herself with it?’ He answered, ‘Glory be to Allah! Cleanse yourself with it.’ … She then asked him about the ghusl for janābah (major ritual impurity), whereupon he said, ‘You should take your water …’ ʿĀʾishah added, ‘How excellent are the women of the Anṣār; their modesty did not keep them from seeking understanding of their religion.’ It was related by “all the compilers save al-Tirmidhī.”

I say: This citation contains two errors.

First: The compilers just mentioned did not all transmit the hadith in its complete form. Only Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah, and Aḥmad (6/147–148) narrated it in full, and the present wording is theirs. The remaining two, al-Bukhārī and al-Nasāʾī, recorded only the first part, omitting the question about the ghusl for janābah. It is that abridged portion which al-Muntaqā (1/217–218) with al-Shawkānī’s commentary attributed to “the compilers other than al-Tirmidhī.”

Al-Bukhārī also cited—suspended (muʿallaq)—ʿĀʾishah’s closing remark, “How excellent are the women ….” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in his commentary (1/84a):

“This suspended report is joined to its chain by Muslim … from ʿĀʾishah in a hadith that begins: Asmāʾ bint Yazīd al-Anṣāriyyah asked the Prophet ﷺ about the ritual bath after menstruation … .”

This makes clear the mistake of attributing the entire hadith to al-Bukhārī. Shaykh Maḥmūd al-Subkī fell into the same error in al-Dīn al-Khāliṣ (1/313), and it appears that both men merely followed someone else in doing so.