“Only Wahb Abu Khalid narrated from her.” This word appears in al-Mustadrak with the wording: “al-khulsah.” In sum, the hadith with the wording “al-khalisah” has not been established as authentic in my view. As for the wording “al-khulsah,” it is mentioned in the hadiths of Zayd ibn Khalid and Jabir ibn Abdullah in al-Musnad, and of al-Irbad in al-Mustadrak; it is therefore authentic, Allah willing.

Another note: In his commentary on al-Tabarani’s al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (3/76), our colleague Shaykh Hamdi al-Salafi attributed the hadith under discussion to Imam Ahmad’s Musnad (4/194). Yet, at that place the Imam narrated only the hadith of Abu Tha'labah al-Khushani concerning the domesticated donkeys and their slaughtering them—similar to the preceding hadith of Jabir. It also includes another account concerning their eating onions and garlic and then going to the mosque, and his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: “Whoever eats this offensive plant should not come near us.” He also said: “Plundering is not lawful; nor is any fanged beast of prey; nor are animals tethered as targets.” Its chain includes Baqiyyah’s ambiguous use of the transmission formula “from.”

1674 — “Hijrah does not cease as long as jihad continues.”

It was narrated by al-Tahawi in Mushkil al-Athar (3/257) and Ahmad (4/62 and 5/375), through Junadah ibn Abi Umayyah, that a group of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to one another, “Hijrah has ceased.” They differed over this matter, so he said: I went to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, “O Messenger of Allah, some people say that hijrah has ceased.” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then said the above. Al-Tahawi said: “So long as jihad endures.”