2228 - Muhammad ibn Ma'mar narrated to us, Abu 'Amir 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Amr narrated to us, Abu 'Amr al-Sadusi al-Madini narrated to us, from 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn 'Amr ibn Hazm, from 'Amrah, from 'A'ishah:

That Habibah bint Sahl was married to Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas, and he struck her and broke part of her. She came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, after the dawn prayer and complained to him about him. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, called Thabit and said: "Take some of her wealth and separate from her." He said: "Is that permissible, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Yes." He said: "Indeed, I gave her as her dowry two gardens, and they are in her possession." The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Take them and separate from her." So he did.

(1) Sahih due to corroborating evidence, and this chain is hasan because of Abu 'Amr al-Sadusi al-Madini — who is Sa'id ibn Salamah ibn Abi al-Husam — and Abu 'Amir 'Abd al-Malik: he is al-'Aqadi, and 'Amrah: she is bint 'Abd al-Rahman.
Al-Tabari also recorded it in his "Tafsir" (4808) via the path of Abu 'Amir al-'Aqadi, with this chain.
Al-Bayhaqi recorded it in "Al-Kubra" 7/315 via the path of 'Abdullah ibn Raja', from Sa'id ibn Salamah ibn Abi al-Husam, with it.
It has a witness from the hadith of Habibah bint Sahl al-Ansariyyah, which preceded it.
Another from the hadith of Sahl ibn Abi Hathmah in Ahmad's "Musnad" (16095). And it is hasan due to corroborating evidence.
And a third from the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas in al-Bukhari (5273), (5275), and (5276).
His statement: "and broke part of her" — thus it appears in the manuscript copies available to us, and in al-Tabari: "and broke her nughd," which Shaykh Mahmud Shakir, may Allah have mercy on him, vocalized as: with a damma on the nun and a sukun on the ghayn, and its final letter is a mu'jamah dad: the thin bone at the edge of the shoulder. Then he said: "And this is the correct reading for this word here." And it is established in the printed edition (i.e., the printed edition of al-Tabari): "part of her," and likewise in the printed editions of Sunan Abi Dawud, except in a copy on the margin of the Indian edition where it is recorded correctly, and it is the sound and established reading in the manuscript of Shaykh 'Abid al-Sindi (which his brother Shaykh Ahmad described in the introduction to al-Tirmidhi 3), clearly vocalized and not susceptible to corruption. We say: The author of "Badhl al-Majhud" 10/361 mentioned that in one of the copies of Abu Dawud in his possession, it reads: "her nughd."