al-Saʾib ibn Yazid, who related that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he mentioned the hadith.

Through this same Makki—namely, Ibn Ibrahim—al-Nasaʾi also transmitted it in al-Sunan al-Kubra (5/310/8960) and (folio 75/2—Treating Women Well—the al-Zahiriyyah manuscript), and al-Tabarani in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (7/187–187), but without the words, “So he gave her a tray.”

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission, meeting the conditions of both al-Bukhari and Muslim. Al-Saʾib ibn Yazid was a young Companion: he was taken on the Farewell Pilgrimage when he was seven years old. It therefore appears that he received it from Lady ʿAʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, from whom he did narrate.

Al-Juʿayd is Ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Aws; he is also said to be called al-Jaʿd—the non-diminutive form.

Al-Haythami, after citing it in Ahmad’s wording, said (8/135):

“Ahmad and al-Tabarani narrated it, and its narrators are those of the Sahih collections.”

Al-Zabidi said in his commentary on Ihyaʾ, after attributing it to al-Nasaʾi (6/494):

“Its chain of transmission is authentic, and al-Tabarani also transmitted it in al-Kabir.”

Note: The words, “Satan has blown into her nostrils,” are omitted from the printed edition of al-Sunan al-Kubra. They are, however, established in the al-Zahiriyyah manuscript, as well as in al-Zabidi’s citation from al-Nasaʾi’s version.

As for his words, “a tray,” al-Qamus states:

“Ṭabaq, pronounced with a short ‘a’ in both syllables: the cover of anything, and that upon which food is eaten.”