The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about a man who finds wetness but does not recall having had a wet dream. He said: “He must perform the ritual bath.” He was also asked about a man who thinks he had a wet dream but finds no wetness. He said: “He is not required to perform the ritual bath.” Umm Sulaym then asked: “Is a woman who experiences that required to do anything?” He said: “Yes; women are…” End of hadith.

It was recorded by Abu Dawud (1/37), al-Tirmidhi (1/189–190), and Ahmad (6/256). Al-Tirmidhi said: “Yahya ibn Saʿid declared ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar weak on account of his retention in hadith.” I say: The only concern is his poor retention; when his narration is corroborated, that indicates that he did retain it correctly. That is the case here, for this account has also been narrated from Anas through another route, whose chain of transmission is authentic, as Ibn al-Qattan stated above.

Al-Darimi (1/195) recorded it: Muhammad ibn Kathir informed us, from al-Awzaʿi, from Ishaq ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Talhah, from Anas, who said: Umm Sulaym came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, while Umm Salamah was with him, and asked: “Can a woman see in her dream what a man sees?” Umm Salamah said: “May your hands be dusted with earth, Umm Sulaym! Have you exposed the women?” The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, defending Umm Sulaym, said: “Rather, may your hands be dusted with earth! The best of you is she who asks about what concerns her. If she sees the fluid, let her perform the ritual bath.” Umm Salamah asked: “Do women have fluid, Messenger of Allah?” He said: “Yes. Otherwise, how would children resemble them? Women are the counterparts of men.”

This chain of transmission consists of trustworthy narrators, all of whom are among the narrators of the six canonical collections, apart from Muhammad ibn Kathir, who was Abu Yusuf