and Ibn Saʿd in al-Ṭabaqāt (325–326), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (24/245/629), through the route of Shuʿbah, from Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: I heard Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥudhayfah relate from his aunt Fāṭimah that she said:

“We came to visit the Messenger of Allah in the company of some women. There was a water-skin suspended near him, its water dripping upon him—in another narration, upon his heart—because of the intensity of the fever he was suffering. We said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, if only you would supplicate to Allah and He would cure you.’ The Messenger of Allah said: …” He then cited it.

Al-Ṭabarānī then transmitted it through other routes from Ḥuṣayn with the same chain, and the other wording occurs in some of them.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and well known, apart from this Abū ʿUbaydah; Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, and a group of reliable narrators transmitted from him. Al-Haythamī said after the hadith (2/292):

“Ahmad and al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Kabīr with similar wording … and Ahmad’s chain is good.”

In his biography of Fāṭimah bint al-Yamān in al-Iṣābah, al-Ḥāfiẓ said:

“Al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Saʿd transmitted her hadith through a strong chain.”

He means this hadith. In al-Fatḥ (10/111), he said:

“Al-Nasāʾī transmitted it, and al-Ḥākim declared it authentic.”

And he endorsed this.

I say: I have already attributed it to al-Ḥākim, but he left it blank in the place to which I referred. So I do not know whether al-Ḥāfiẓ meant it, in which case the authentication may have been omitted by the copyist, or whether he meant another place in it that I have not come across.