Hadith Twenty-Four

35 – With this same isnād up to Yūsuf ibn Khalīl: Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalanī informed us; Abū Manṣūr al-Ṣayrafī informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān informed us. (Alternate route:) Ibn Khalīl added: Abū al-Maḥāsin the merchant informed us; Abū al-Faḍl al-Thaqafī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Kātib informed us. They both said: Abū Bakr ibn Fūrak informed us; Abū Bakr ibn al-Nuʿmān informed us; Abū Naʿīm narrated to us; Abū Ḥanīfah, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀʾishah—she used to lead the women in prayer, standing in the middle of their row.