the women exempt from the requirement of outer garments! There is no evidence for this claim, for the fact that she was an old woman does not necessarily mean that she was one of those women, as is obvious. We mentioned it only as supporting evidence; the proofs cited there are sufficient.

2793 — “O Safiyyah, your father had incited all the Arabs against me and did such and such,” apologizing to her.

Al-Tabarani transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (24/67/177): Abu Zurʿah ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAmr al-Dimashqi narrated to us; ʿAffan narrated to us; Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:

Safiyyah had a greenish discoloration in her eye. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked her, “What is this greenish discoloration in your eye?”

She said: “I told my husband, ‘I saw in a dream a moon fall into my lap.’ He slapped me and said, ‘Do you desire the king of Yathrib?!’ No one was more hateful to me than the Messenger of Allah, for he had killed my father and my husband. Yet he continued to apologize to me with these words, until that feeling left me.”

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of Muslim, apart from Abu Zurʿah al-Dimashqi, who was trustworthy and a hadith master. Al-Haythami said in al-Majmaʿ (9/251): “Al-Tabarani transmitted it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.”

Abu Yaʿla also transmitted it in his Musnad (4/1695–1697) through two other chains from Safiyyah, in an abbreviated form that omits her story with her husband and the dream. Ibn Ishaq mentioned it in full, without a chain, in al-Sirah (3/388). Ibn Hajar also mentioned it in al-Isabah, through the narration of Yunus ibn Bukayr from him: “My father, Ishaq ibn Yasar, narrated to me,” and then related the story. However, it reads: