Hadith Twenty-Two
33 – With the same chain all the way to al-Ṭabarānī through the isnād of Yūsuf ibn Khalīl. (An alternate strand:) Yūsuf ibn Khalīl said: Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭarsūsī informed us; Abū Nahshal al-ʿAnbarī informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Rīdhah narrated to us; Abū al-Qāsim ⦗44⦘ al-Ṭabarānī narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Abū Ḥanīfah, from al-Haytham—or Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Bakr was uncertain—that the Prophet ﷺ divorced Sawdah with a single pronouncement. She then sat along his route, and when he passed by she asked him to take her back, pledging to give up her allotted day to him so that he might bestow it on whichever of his wives he wished, hoping thereby to be raised on the Day of Resurrection as his wife. He therefore reinstated her and accepted the arrangement.