collections, as in hadiths (18 and 94). The first is documented in al-Da'ifah (4021), and the second under no. (372). Yet he rebutted me with two weak hadiths whose documentation will appear under nos. (6235 and 6236)! *

3131—“Get up and wash your faces”—referring to Aishah and Sawdah.

Abu Bakr al-Shafi‘i recorded it in al-Fawa'id (folio 18/1): Ishaq ibn al-Hasan ibn Maymun al-Harbi related to me: Abu Salamah related to us: Hammad related to us: Muhammad ibn Amr, from Yahya ibn Abd al-Rahman, from Aishah—may Allah be pleased with her—who said:

“I brought the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a dish of khazirah that I had cooked for him. I said to Sawdah, while the Prophet ﷺ was between us, ‘Eat.’ But she refused, so I said, ‘Either you eat, or I shall smear your face.’ She refused, so I put my hand into the khazirah and smeared her face with it. The Prophet ﷺ laughed, then put his thigh (!) toward her and said to Sawdah, ‘Smear her face.’

“So she smeared my face, and the Prophet ﷺ laughed as well. Then Umar passed by and called out, ‘O Abdullah! O Abdullah!’ The Prophet ﷺ thought that he was about to enter, so he said to the two of them …” Then he cited the rest of the hadith.

Aishah said: “Thereafter, I continued to stand in awe of Umar because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood in awe of him.”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are included in Tahdhib, apart from this Ishaq al-Harbi; he too is trustworthy, as Ibrahim al-Harbi, Abdullah ibn Ahmad, and al-Daraqutni stated. His biography appears in Tarikh Baghdad (6/382).

Abu Salamah’s name was Musa ibn Isma‘il al-Tabudhaki.

Hammad was Ibn Salamah.