(1) Ahmad reports it from Abu Bakrah with the wording: “Men are destroyed when they obey women; men are destroyed when they obey women”—repeated three times (al-Musnad, 5/45). Al-Suyuti includes it in al-Jamiʿ al-Saghir, 2/712, no. 9596, grading it hasan (fair). Ahmad’s chain is sound, but al-Albani judged the hadith weak; see Daʿif al-Jamiʿ al-Saghir wa Ziyadatuh, p. 879, no. 6097. (2) The printed edition reads: “to one of the Mothers of the Believers when she answered him back.” (3) The point is attested in a hadith recorded by al-Bukhari, Sahih, Book of the Prophets, chap. 19, nos. 3384–3385 (Fath al-Bari, 6/417–418). (4) Reported by both Bukhari and Muslim. Muslim: Sahih, Book of Faith, chapter “Clarification of the Deficiency of Faith,” no. 79 (1/87), with the wording, “You are most overpowering for a man of intelligence among you.” Bukhari: Sahih, Book of Menstruation, chapter “The Menstruating Woman’s Exemption from Fasting,” no. 304 (Fath al-Bari, 1/405), wording: “I have never seen anyone with a deficiency in reason and religion more capable of carrying off the mind of a resolute man than one of you.” (5) Most sources call him ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Aʿwar al-Mazani. Ibn Hajar, however, states in al-Isaba that he was al-Haramazi and that no poet nicknamed al-Aʿsha is known among the Banu Mazin. All agree that his name was ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Aʿwar and that he was a Companion. The present text’s designation “al-Aʿsha of Bahila” is puzzling, for al-Aʿsha of Bahila was ʿAmir ibn al-Harith ibn Riyah al-Bahili, and I found no source attributing these verses to him. See: al-Isaba, 2/276 (no. 4535); Usd al-Ghaba, 1/102; al-Lubab, 3/45; Musnad Ahmad, 2/204; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/53; al-Aʿlam, 3/250.