“If I were to command anyone to prostrate to another, I would command a woman to prostrate to her husband. A woman does not fully discharge the right Allah has over her until she fully discharges her husband’s right over her—even if he asks her for herself while she is on a pack-saddle, she would give herself to him.” This chain of transmission is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria. It was corroborated by Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from Ayyūb, with the same chain. It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (1/292, al-ʿIlmiyyah edition), Ibn Ḥibbān (1390), and al-Bayhaqī (7/292). The hadith also has corroboration in the narration of Ibn ʿUmar, recorded by al-Bayhaqī.

1204 — “Excellent!—and he gestured with his hand to indicate five—how weighty they are on the Scale: ‘Glory be to Allah,’ ‘Praise be to Allah,’ ‘There is no god but Allah,’ ‘Allah is the Greatest,’ and a righteous child of a Muslim who dies, and for whose loss he seeks Allah’s reward.”

Ibn Saʿd recorded it in al-Ṭabaqāt (7/433), as did Ibn Ḥibbān (2328) and Ibn ʿAsākir in Tārīkh Dimashq (19/35/1), through ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabar and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, who said: Abū Salām narrated to us: Abū Salmā, the shepherd of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated to me; then he related it. Al-Ḥākim (1/511–512) and Ibn Saʿd (6/58) also recorded it through Ibn Jābir alone, with the same chain. Al-Ḥākim said: “The chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. It is as they said.

Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr also corroborated him, from Zayd, from Abū Salām, from a freedman of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said it. He added: “Excellent! Excellent! Whoever meets Allah certain of five things will enter Paradise: belief in Allah, the Last Day, Paradise, the Fire, resurrection after death, and the Reckoning.” Aḥmad recorded it (3/443, 4/237, and 5/365), though Zayd was not mentioned in one version.

I say: Its chain is also authentic. The unnamed freedman is Abū Salmā, the shepherd of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), as in the preceding narration. This is preferable to al-Haythamī’s statement following the second narration (10/88):