It was also narrated by Ibn Sa‘d, 8/20, via Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and 8/21, via Ḥammād ibn Zayd, and Ibn Abī Shaybah, 4/199, from Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Ulayyah—all three of them from Ayyūb, from ‘Ikrimah, as a mursal report.

It was also narrated as a connected report by al-Nasā’ī (5541) via Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Ayyūb, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, from ‘Alī—thus making it part of ‘Alī’s musnad.

It was likewise narrated as a connected report by al-Bayhaqī, 7/234, via Ibn Jurayj, who was informed by ‘Amr ibn Dīnār, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, with the wording: “‘Alī did not deem Fāṭimah, may God be pleased with her, lawful to himself except with a coat of iron.” The “coat of iron” is the armor itself.

Ibn Jurayj was contradicted by Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭā’ifī, as found in Ibn Sa‘d, 8/20, and by Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah, also found there, 8/24—both of whom narrated it from ‘Amr ibn Dīnār, from ‘Ikrimah, as a mursal report.

It was also narrated as a connected report by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (12000) and in al-Awsaṭ (2870) and (7981), via Ma‘mar, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, with the author’s wording. However, Ma‘mar was contradicted by ‘Alī ibn al-Mubārak, as found in Ibn Sa‘d, 8/20, who narrated it from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from ‘Ikrimah, as a mursal report.

It will also come as a connected report with the author at number (2127), via Ghaylān ibn Anas, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbās.

Thus, the ḥadīth is sound as a connected report on the strength of all these chains combined.

It has a supporting witness from the ḥadīth of ‘Alī, recorded by Aḥmad in his Musnad (603).

Al-Khaṭṭābī said: “Al-Ḥuṭamiyyah is attributed to Ḥuṭamah, a sub-tribe of ‘Abd al-Qays, who used to work in the making of armor. It is said that they are the long, ample coats of mail that break (taḥṭim) weapons.”

It is stated in al-Mughnī, 10/147–148: It is permissible to consummate the marriage with a woman before giving her anything, whether her dower was left unspecified or fixed for her. This is the view of Sa‘īd ibn al-Musayyab, al-Ḥasan, al-Nakha‘ī, al-Thawrī, and al-Shāfi‘ī. It is related from Ibn ‘Abbās, Ibn ‘Umar, al-Zuhrī, Qatādah, and Mālik that he should not consummate the marriage with her until he gives her something. Al-Zuhrī said: “The sunnah has been established that he should not consummate the marriage with her until he gives her something.” Ibn ‘Abbās said: “He should take off one of his sandals and toss it to her” (narrated by Sa‘īd ibn Manṣūr, 1/199). This is also the view of Abū Ḥanīfah, as in al-Badā’i‘, 2/288–289.