Ahmad also transmitted it.

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic. All its narrators are well-known and trustworthy men listed in al-Tahdhib. Junadah ibn Abi Umayyah al-Azdi al-Dawsi was a senior Successor and trustworthy. Ibn Hibban (4/103) and others declared him trustworthy, and a number of people narrated from him, including Mujahid, as in this hadith and as Ibn Asakir mentioned in Tarikh Dimashq (4/28). It has also been said that he was a Companion. I do not know why al-Hafiz did not declare it authentic, for he said in al-Fath (13/105): “Ahmad transmitted it, and its narrators are trustworthy.” Similar is the statement of his teacher al-Haythami in al-Majmaʿ (7/343): “Ahmad narrated it, and its narrators are those of the Sahih.” This is closer to the mark, though it does not establish its authenticity! See Addendum no. (3).

2935 — “There was a woman in it—that is, in a house in Medina. She set out with a detachment of Muslims, leaving behind twelve goats and her small weaving implement, with which she used to weave. She then found that one of her goats and her weaving implement were missing, so she said: ‘My Lord, You have guaranteed those who go forth in Your cause that You will safeguard what they leave behind. I have lost a goat from my flock and my weaving implement, and I beseech You for my goat and my weaving implement.’” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, continued to mention the intensity of her plea to her Lord, the Mighty and Majestic. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “In the morning, she found her goat and another like it, her weaving implement and another like it, and there was what she had lost. Ask her, if you wish.”

Ahmad transmitted it in his Musnad (5/67), saying: “ʿAbd al-Samad ibn