This addition also occurs in the aforementioned hadith of Ibn ʿUmar. Abu Saʿd further added:

“He raised his eyes to heaven, and she said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, supplicate Allah to conceal my nakedness.’ He said: ‘O Allah, conceal her nakedness.’”

Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (1/133—al-Zahiriyyah manuscript) and (3/93/2755—printed edition), though part of its chain of transmission is missing from the latter, through Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Muzani, from ʿAtaʾ ibn Abi Rabah, from al-Hasan ibn ʿAli. It is also recorded with the same chain in Jamiʿ al-Masanid (3/487/2157).

As for Saʿid ibn al-Marzuban, al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib:

“Weak, and practising tadlīs.”

I say: Some critics rejected him. Yet despite this weakness and discrepancy, the three ignoramuses stated in their notes on al-Targhib (4/288):

“Good on account of its corroborating reports!” *

Among the Terrors of Punishment in Hell

3470 — (Indeed, scalding water will be poured over their heads, and the scalding water will penetrate until it reaches his interior, stripping away what is within him until it comes out through his feet. That is the melting. Then he will be restored as he was.)

Ibn al-Mubarak recorded it in al-Zuhd (89/312 / Zawaʾid Nuʿaym). Through Ibn al-Mubarak’s route, it was also narrated by al-Tirmidhi (2582) and al-Hakim (2/387), and from him by al-Bayhaqi in al-Baʿth