al-Zuhrī, who said: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām informed me, from Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, who said:

At the onset of the Messenger of Allah’s illness, while he was in Maymūnah’s house, his sickness became so severe that he fell unconscious. His wives consulted one another about administering medicine to him by the side of his mouth, and they did so. When he regained consciousness, he said:

“What is this?”

We said: (1) “This is a treatment used by women who came from there,” and he pointed toward the land of Abyssinia; Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays had been among them. They said: “We suspected that you had pleurisy, O Messenger of Allah.” He said:

“That is an illness with which Allah, Exalted is He, would never afflict me. No one in this household is to be left without having it administered to them, except the Messenger of Allah’s uncle”—meaning al-ʿAbbās.

She said: Maymūnah was made to take it that day, even though she was fasting, by the firm command of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

Its chain of transmission is authentic, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Fatḥ. Al-Haythamī said (9/33):

“Its narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: It meets the conditions of both al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Al-Ṭaḥāwī also narrated it from ʿAbd al-Razzāq.

Al-Bukhārī (4458) and Muslim (7/24) also narrated it through another chain from ʿĀʾishah, in an abbreviated form, with the wording: