The second recension is found only in Aḥmad’s Musnad; its chain is likewise sound according to the criteria of the Six, and it appears along the second route as well.
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ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr narrates the report from her in similar wording, and it contains the second recension. Muslim and Aḥmad both record it.
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Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān transmits it from her in abridged form, preserving the purport of the fifth addition. Aḥmad cites it, saying: “Khallaf ibn al-Walīd told us; ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād told us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from him.” The transmitters in this chain are reliable, yet the link between Yaḥyā and ʿĀʾishah is broken, as noted earlier.
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Abū Salamah relates it from her, and in his version appear the third, sixth, and eighth additions together with the third recension. After attributing this route to al-Nasāʾī—most likely meaning his al-Sunan al-Kubrā—al-Ḥāfiẓ commented: “Its chain is sound, and I have not encountered the epithet al-ḥumayrāʾ (‘the rosy-cheeked one’) in any authentic hadith except this one.” Al-ʿIrāqī likewise declared its chain sound in his Takhrīj of the Iḥyāʾ.
Al-Nasāʾī headed the narration with the title: “Playing in the mosque on the day of ʿĪd and women looking on.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ, while explaining the clause “and the Abyssinians were playing in the mosque,” said: