Then Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, and Aḥmad likewise recorded it through several chains that run: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar → Nāfiʿ → Sulaymān ibn Yasār → Umm Salamah, with the same wording.
In another version preserved by Aḥmad—narrated by Yaḥyā from ʿUbayd Allāh—[he said]: “Nāfiʿ informed me, on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
‘Whoever lets his garment drag out of arrogance, Allah will not look at him on the Day of Resurrection.’
He added: ‘And Sulaymān ibn Yasār informed me that Umm Salamah mentioned the women…’” — and so the ḥadīth continues.
Thus there are four lines of variance in the transmission from Nāfiʿ:
- from him directly on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar;
- from him directly on the authority of Umm Salamah;
- from him, from her, through Ṣafiyyah bint Abī ʿUbayd;
- from him, from her, through Sulaymān ibn Yasār.
In my estimation, the last two versions are the stronger.
As for the first of those two, three trustworthy transmitters agree upon it: Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, Abū Bakr ibn Nāfiʿ, and Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq.
As for the other, the one who narrates it from Nāfiʿ is ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, a reliable and firmly grounded authority. Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ even ranked him above Mālik in his transmissions from Nāfiʿ, as al-Ḥāfiẓ notes in al-Taqrīb. He therefore deserves preference over Ayyūb all the more—especially since his report is detailed, explicitly stating that