In sum, I consider the hadith to be good on the strength of this supporting report, especially since it accords in meaning with the hadith of ʿAlī: “When he walked, he walked with a forward lean, as though descending a slope.” Its documentation has already been given under hadith 2083.

2141 — “He would play with Zaynab, the daughter of Umm Salamah, saying: ‘O little Zaynab! O little Zaynab!’ repeatedly.”

Al-Ḍiyāʾ narrated it in al-Mukhtārah (45/2), from Aḥmad ibn Ḥarb: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah narrated to us, from Thābit al-Bunānī—ʿAlī said: “I believe it was”—from Anas, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; all its narrators are trustworthy.

2142 — “For a woman to pray in her private room is better for her than to pray in her chamber; to pray in her chamber is better for her than to pray in the house; and to pray in the house is better for her than to pray in the mosque.”

Al-Bukhārī narrated it in al-Tārīkh (4/2/265), and al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan (3/132) and Shuʿab al-Īmān (2/475/1), from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Uways, who said: Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated to me, from Sharīk ibn Abī Namir, from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Kathīr, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Labībah, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, from ʿĀʾishah, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. I say: The narrators in this chain have all been deemed trustworthy, apart from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Kathīr, who was the brother of