Abū al-ʿĀṣ reached Medina and sent word to her: “Obtain for me a pledge of protection from your father.” She came out and leaned her head out from the door of her chamber while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was leading the people in the dawn prayer. She said: “O people, I am Zaynab, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I have granted Abū al-ʿĀṣ protection.” When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had finished the prayer, he spoke the words cited above.

Al-Ṭabarānī said: “It is narrated from Umm Salamah only through this chain of transmission; Ibn Lahīʿah alone narrated it.” He also transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (23/425/1047) through another route from Ibn Lahīʿah, with the same wording.

I say: After attributing it, in this form, to al-Awsaṭ and al-Kabīr, al-Haythamī said in abbreviated form (5/330): “It contains Ibn Lahīʿah; his hadith is good, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.” I say: The established ruling concerning him, according to most scholars, is that his hadith is good when supported by corroborating and parallel narrations. However, when it is narrated from him by one of the ʿAbd Allāhs, it is authentic. Here, it was narrated from him by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb. Thus, al-Dūlābī said in al-Dhurriyyah al-Ṭāhirah (fol. 12/1): “Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb informed us; Ibn Lahīʿah informed me of it.” Al-Ḥākim also transmitted it (4/45) through another route from Ibn Wahb, with the same wording.

I say: Thus, the hadith is authentic, praise be to Allah. Mūsā ibn Jubayr al-Anṣārī was narrated from by a number of trustworthy transmitters, among them al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Bakr ibn Muḍar, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, and Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb. For this reason, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif: “Trustworthy.” Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt (7/451) and said: