11- ʿUrwah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qushayr narrated: He once entered upon Fatimah bint ʿAli ibn Abi Talib and said, “I noticed on her wrists heavy bracelets—two on each wrist—and I also saw a ring on her hand …” (report continues).
12- ʿIsa ibn ʿUthman said: I was sitting with Fatimah bint ʿAli when a man came in and began extolling her father in her presence. She took some ashes and flung them in his face.
13- Yahya ibn Abi Sulaym said: I saw Samraʾ bint Nahik—who had met the Prophet ﷺ—wearing a coarse outer garment and a thick head-covering, holding a whip in her hand with which she disciplined the people, commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
14- Maymun—meaning ibn Mihran—said: I entered upon Umm al-Dardaʾ and found her veiled in a dense khimar that she had drawn
(11–12) Both reports are narrated by Ibn Saʿd (8:466) and, through him, by Ibn ʿAsakir (19:503). The first isnad is sound (sahih) and the second good (jayyid). ʿIsa ibn ʿUthman is listed by Ibn Hibban among his reliable transmitters (Thiqat, 7:233), and a number of scholars narrated from him.
(13) Al-Tabarani records the report in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (24:311 / no. 785) with a good chain.
(14) Ibn ʿAsakir cites it in Tarikh Dimashq (19:562) through al-Baghawi: "ʿIsa ibn Salim al-Shashi—Abu al-Malih—from Maymun…" I say: the chain is sound. Abu al-Malih is al-Hasan ibn ʿUmar al-Raqqi, a trustworthy narrator listed in Tahdhib; al-Shashi was declared reliable by Ibn Hibban (8:494) and by al-Khatib (Tarikh, 11:161). Umm al-Dardaʾ, the wife of Abu al-Dardaʾ, was named Hujaymah (some report Juhaymah); she was trustworthy, learned in fiqh, and profoundly devout, with a lengthy biographical entry in Tarikh Dimashq.