197 — Shuʿayb ibn Yūsuf informed us, saying: Yaḥyā narrated to us, from Hishām, who said: My father informed me, from Zaynab bint Umm Salamah, from Umm Salamah, that a woman said: "O Messenger of Allah, indeed Allah is not ashamed of the truth — is there a bath (ghusl) upon a woman when she has a wet dream?" He said: "Yes, if she sees the water (fluid)." Umm Salamah laughed and said: "Does a woman have wet dreams?!" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "How else would her child resemble her?"

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It was also narrated by Muslim (314) via the path of ʿUqayl ibn Khālid, and by Abū Dāwūd (237), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1166) via the path of Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī — both from al-Zuhrī, with this chain of transmission. In Ibn Ḥibbān's version: "from the wife of the Prophet ﷺ," without naming ʿĀʾishah.

It was also narrated by Aḥmad (24610) and Muslim (314): (33) via the path of Musāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, that a woman said to the Prophet ﷺ… without naming Umm Sulaym.

His saying: "May your right hand be covered with dust (taribat yamīnuk)" — meaning: may it stick to the dust, in the sense of becoming poor. It is an expression current on the tongues of the Arabs; they do not intend by it an actual supplication against the addressee, but rather reproach and the like. Al-Sindī said this.

(1) In (YH) and the margin of (H): "min ghusl" (from a bath) — (variant copy), with a copy mark over it in (YH).
(2) In (H): "idhā hiya" (when she), with a copy mark over the word "hiya."
(3) In the margins of (K) and (YH): "fa-bima" (then with what) — (variant copy).
(4) Its chain of transmission is sound. Yaḥyā is Ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, and Hishām is Ibn ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (199).

It was also narrated by Aḥmad (26503), al-Bukhārī (3328) and (6091) via the path of Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, with this chain of transmission.

It was also narrated by Aḥmad (26579), al-Bukhārī (130), (282), and (6121), Muslim (313), al-Tirmidhī (122), Ibn Mājah (600), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1165) and (1167) via various paths from Hishām, with it. In all of these narrations it is explicitly stated that the woman asking was Umm Sulaym, may Allah be pleased with her.

The report before it came from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah; al-Sindī said: It was said regarding reconciliation (between the two reports): It is possible that both ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah were present together, and one of them began with the objection while the other supported her, so the Prophet ﷺ turned to both of them with his objection. Likewise, it is also possible that the incident occurred twice — that Umm Sulaym forgot the answer, so she came a second time to ask, intending by coming a second time to seek further confirmation and certainty. And Allah Most High knows best.