and Abū Nuʿaym also recorded it in Akhbār Aṣbahān (1/345) through another route from al-Walīd, with the same report but without its second clause.

652 — “He prohibited speaking to women—that is, in their homes—except with the permission of their husbands.”

Al-Kharāʾiṭī recorded it in Makārim al-Akhlāq (8/230/2), through Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, from Ibn Abī Laylā, from al-Ḥakam, from Abū Jaʿfar, the client of Banū Hāshim, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: He then narrated it as a report attributed to the Prophet.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission, on account of Qays and his shaykh, for both were weak in their retention. However, al-Kharāʾiṭī mentioned a corroborating report for it from Tamīm ibn Salamah, who said: “ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ came to the house of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib on some business. Finding that ʿAlī was not there, he left; then he returned and again did not find him, twice or three times. Then ʿAlī came and said to him, ‘Could you not have entered, since your need was with her?’ He replied, ‘We were prohibited from entering upon them except with the permission of their husbands.’”

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Suyūṭī attributed it in al-Jāmiʿ to al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr, on the authority of ʿAmr, with the wording given in the heading. Al-Manāwī said: