540 – ʿAyyāsh ibn al-Walīd al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Sawwāʾ narrated to us; Saʿīd narrated to us, from Qatādah, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAwf al-Shaybānī, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “Had it been permissible for one human being to prostrate before another, I would have instructed a wife to prostrate to her husband.”