I have found for it a weak—indeed, abandoned—corroborating report, narrated by Abū ʿUtbah Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj: Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; Abū ʿĀʾidh—who was ʿUfair ibn Maʿdān—narrated to us from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, with the same report.

Al-Bayhaqī recorded it (4/63) without comment, perhaps because of ʿUfair ibn Maʿdān, whose weakness is agreed upon. Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj is similarly weak. See my entries on both of them in the first volume of al-Ḍaʿīfah.

Perhaps a report conveying the meaning of this hadith is that which al-Ṣabāḥ Abū ʿAbd Allāh narrated from Jābir, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, attributed to the Prophet:

“Women have no share in the funeral procession.”

Al-Bazzār recorded it (1/376/793), as did al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (11/145/11309).

This Jābir is Ibn Yazīd al-Juʿfī, and he is weak.

I was unable to identify al-Ṣabāḥ Abū ʿAbd Allāh. Al-Haythamī therefore considered this its flaw, saying (3/13):

“I have found no one who mentioned him.”

As for al-Ḥāfiẓ, he said in Mukhtaṣar al-Zawāʾid (1/348):

“Al-Ṣabāḥ is weak.”

In conclusion, I say: even if these corroborating reports offer no benefit, the hadith of Umm ʿAṭiyyah remains the principal basis. And Allah knows best. *