and I outran him on foot. Some time later—he had said nothing about it until I had put on flesh, become heavy and forgotten all about the first race—I set out with him on another journey. He said to his Companions, “Go on ahead,” so they went on ahead. Then he said, “Come, let me race you.” I had forgotten what had taken place and was now carrying extra weight, so I asked, “How can I race you, O Messenger of Allah, when I am in this condition?” He replied, “You will indeed do so.” So I raced him and he outran me. He began laughing and said, “This race makes up for that one.”

I say: Its chain of transmission is sound according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim), and al-ʿIrāqī also declared it authentic in his Takhreej al-Iḥyāʾ (2/40).

Hammād ibn Salamah diverged from the majority, however. He related—from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from Abū Salamah, from her—in an abridged form with the wording: “She said: I raced the Prophet ﷺ and I beat him.” It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/261). Hammād is a reliable, precise narrator, so it is possible that he preserved what the others did not and that Hishām narrated the report both from his father and from Abū Salamah. Supporting this, Hammād also transmitted it through ʿAlī ibn Zayd from Abū Salamah with the same wording, as found in Aḥmad (6/129, 182, 280).

132 – “Take your kunya from your son ʿAbd Allāh—meaning ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr—you are Umm ʿAbd Allāh.”

Imām Aḥmad recorded it (6/151): ʿAbd al-Razzaq narrated to us, saying: Maʿmar narrated to us, from Hishām, from his father, that ʿĀʾishah said to the Prophet ﷺ, “O Messenger of Allah, every one of your wives has a kunya except me.” So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her—then he mentioned the statement without the added phrase. Thereafter she was called Umm ʿAbd Allāh until she died, even though she never bore a child.