“He marked it as good, but it contains Muḥammad ibn Jābir [the original reads: Ḥātim] al-Yamāmī.”

I say: He occurs only in Aḥmad’s chain of transmission, not in those of the other two sources we mentioned. In those two sources, however, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Badr al-Yamāmī, who is trustworthy, corroborated him. Thus, the hadith is authentic, praise be to Allah.

1203 — “If a man calls his wife, she must respond, even if she is on a camel saddle.”

Al-Bazzār narrated it in his Musnad (p. 155—Zawāʾid): Muḥammad ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Muḥammad ibn Sawāʾ narrated to us: [“Muḥammad ibn Sawāʾ narrated to us”] (1): Saʿīd narrated to us, from Qatādah, from al-Qāsim al-Shaybānī, from Zayd ibn Arqam, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said this. He said: “We know of no one who narrated it with this wording except Zayd, and no one who reported it from Saʿīd, from Qatādah, except Muḥammad.”

I say: He is trustworthy and among the narrators cited by al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Most of his narrations are from Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, and he and those above him are trustworthy narrators cited by Muslim. As for Muḥammad ibn Thaʿlabah, a number of leading scholars narrated from him, including Abū Zurʿah, who was known to narrate only from a trustworthy narrator. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful.” Thus, the chain of transmission is authentic.

Bishr ibn ʿAbd al-Malik corroborated him: Muḥammad ibn Sawāʾ informed us through the same chain, with the wording: “A woman must not withhold herself from her husband, even if she is on a camel saddle.” Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (1/170/1), from Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Asfāṭī: Abū Yazīd al-Kūfī, Bishr ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, narrated to us through the same chain. He said: “No one narrated it from Qatādah except Saʿīd, and no one narrated it from him except Muḥammad ibn Sawāʾ. Al-Asfāṭī alone narrated it from Bishr.”

I say: I do not know this Bishr. One may consult al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl concerning him, for I shall not discuss him at length.