in al-Mukhtārah (1683 and 1684), Abu Nuʿaym in Akhbār Iṣfahān (2/305), and al-Aṣbahānī in al-Targhīb (131/1), through Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Thābit, from Anas, who reported that the Messenger of Allah said the aforementioned supplication. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission according to Muslim’s criteria.

2887 — “Stay back, lest people say that Muhammad goes on campaign with a woman.”

Ibn Saʿd recorded it (8/225–226): ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Shaybah informed us; Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ruʾāsī narrated to us, from Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ, from al-Aswad ibn Qays, from Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr, from Umm Kabshah, a woman of Quḍāʿah, who sought the Prophet’s permission to go on campaign with him. He said, “No.” She said, “O Messenger of Allah, I treat the wounded and care for the sick.” The Messenger of Allah then said the rest of the hadith.

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic as far as Umm Kabshah. However, Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim mentioned this Umm Kabshah in al-Wuḥdān (6/242), and al-Ṭabarānī reported it through Ibn Abī Shaybah, as has preceded under no. 2740, where I rebutted al-Ḥāfiẓ’s objection that it was defective due to being mursal, and cited a corroborating report that lends it further strength.

I have deemed it appropriate to reproduce its documentation in the wording mentioned above for the following benefit: I say: Hadith scholars differ regarding the acceptance of reports from the Companion “singletons”—those from whom only one Successor narrated. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Iṣābah (1/15): “As for one whose status is known only through his own assertion, the implication of al-Āmidī’s previously cited words, and those of his followers, is that his Companionship is not established. Abu al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qaṭṭān related the disagreement on this matter and preferred the view that it is not established. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, however, categorically affirmed its acceptance, on the basis that he is apparently free