Abu Dawud said regarding this: She made expiation on his behalf without seeking his permission.

2215 — Al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali narrated to us, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Yahya narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Ibn Ishaq, with the same chain of transmission, a similar report, except that he said: And al-‘araq is a large basket that holds thirty ṣā‘s.

= And see what follows under numbers (2215–2218).

We say: This woman who argued (al-mujādilah) is Khawlah bint Tha‘labah, as Abu ‘Ubaydah al-Mas‘ūdī attributed it, and he named her husband Aws ibn al-Ṣāmit.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in “al-Fatḥ” 13/374: This is the most sound report concerning the story of the woman who argued and her identification.

On this topic, there is also a report from Ibn ‘Abbās to come under number (2223).

Another from the ḥadīth of ‘Ā’ishah, abridged, will come under number (2220).

A third from Abu al-‘Āliyah as a mursal report in al-Ṭabarī 28/1–2.

A fourth from ‘Aṭā’ ibn Yasār as a mursal report in al-Bayhaqī 7/389–390.

The correct view regarding al-‘araq is that it is a measure equivalent to fifteen ṣā‘s, as indicated by the authentic ḥadīth of Abu Hurayrah concerning the man who had intercourse with his wife during the daytime of Ramaḍān, recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān in his “Ṣaḥīḥ” (3526), al-Dāraquṭnī in his “Sunan” (2303) — and he declared its chain authentic — and al-Bayhaqī 4/224, where it states: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was brought an ‘araq containing fifteen ṣā‘s of dates. Likewise, as in the ḥadīth of Salamah ibn Ṣakhr al-Anṣārī recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1239), and as clarified by Abu Salamah ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Sulaymān ibn Yasār, and ‘Aṭā’ ibn Abī Rabāḥ in their narrations that follow with the author under numbers (2216), (2217), and (2218).

Al-Akhfash said: The basket was called ‘araq because it is woven strand by strand (ʿaraqah ʿaraqah), and al-ʿaraqah is a small palm leaf.

(1) Authentic due to corroboration like the preceding one, except for his statement: “And al-‘araq is thirty ṣā‘s.” Muhammad ibn Salamah is al-Bāhilī al-Ḥarrānī.