(1) Reported by Abu Dawud 1/377; al-Hakim 2/195, 279; al-Bayhaqi 7/195; al-Wahidi, Asbab, p. 52; and al-Khattabi, Gharib al-Hadith, 2/73. The chain is hasan, and al-Hakim judged it sahih according to Muslim’s criteria, a verdict endorsed by al-Dhahabi. Al-Tabarani also transmits a shorter route for it. It has a corroborating narration from Ibn Umar with similar wording: al-Nasa’i, al-Ashrah, 2/76, with a sahih chain. The same narration is given by him and by al-Qasim al-Sarqasti in al-Gharib 2/93/2, among others, from Sa‘id b. Yasar who said: “I said to Ibn Umar, ‘We buy slave girls and practice tahmid with them.’ He asked, ‘What is tahmid?’ I replied, ‘We approach them from their rears (anal intercourse).’ He exclaimed, ‘Uff! Would a Muslim do that?!’ ” The chain is sound, and this is an unequivocal statement from Ibn Umar emphatically rejecting anal intercourse with women. Therefore, anything cited by al-Suyuti in Asbab al-Nuzul or elsewhere that opposes this explicit text is certainly mistaken and should be disregarded.