I say: Al-Dhahabi also mentioned her in the section on unknown women at the end of al-Mizan. Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib: “Acceptable, of the second generation; and it is said that she had Companionship.” I say: Her two nephews, Sa‘d and Sulayman, are trustworthy, and they narrated from her. Thus, according to the principles of hadith criticism, her status is unknown if her Companionship is not established; yet one such as her is among those whose hadith inspires confidence in the heart. And Allah knows best.

2480 — “Before you lies a formidable ascent; none will be saved from it except those lightly burdened.”

Al-Bazzar transmitted it in his Musnad (p. 325, al-Zawa’id), and Ibn Jarir al-Tabari in Tahdhib al-Athar (1/407/935), through the route of Asad ibn Musa: Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us from Musa al-Saghir, from Hilal ibn Yisaf, from Umm al-Darda’, from Abu al-Darda’, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ... and he mentioned it.

Al-Bazzar said: “This is an authentic chain of transmission; we know it only through this route.” I say: It is as he said, for all its narrators are trustworthy narrators of Muslim, apart from Asad ibn Musa and Musa al-Saghir; both are trustworthy, as al-Haythami said (10/263). The disagreement concerning Asad ibn Musa does not impair it, if Allah Most High wills, especially since ‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Salih corroborated him in al-Hilyah (1/226). Al-Mundhiri said (4/84): “Al-Bazzar transmitted it with a good chain of transmission.” He then cited it through al-Tabarani’s narration from Umm al-Darda’, from Abu al-Darda’. She said: “I said to him:”