207 (M) — Qutaybah informed us once again, and he did not mention Jaʿfar.

208 — Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd informed us, from Mālik, from Nāfiʿ, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, from Umm Salamah — meaning that a woman used to have prolonged bleeding during the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Umm Salamah sought a ruling from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, on her behalf, and he said: "Let her count the number of nights and days on which she used to menstruate each month before this condition befell her, and let her abandon prayer for that amount of time each month. Then, when she has passed that period, let her perform ghusl, then seek forgiveness, then pray."

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Also recorded by Muslim (334): (65), and Abū Dāwūd (279) from Qutaybah, with this chain of transmission.
Also recorded by Aḥmad (25859) from Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣṣīṣī, from al-Layth, with it.
Also recorded by Muslim (334): (66) via Bakr ibn Muḍar, from Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah, with it, with the addition: "And she used to perform ghusl before every prayer." The ḥadīth will be repeated at number 352.

His statement: "malʾān" — and in some copies: "malʾā" — likewise in Muslim it appears in both forms. Al-Nawawī said: Both are correct; the masculine is according to the wording, and the feminine is according to the meaning, because it is a basin. Al-Sindī said this.

(1) In the margins of (K) and (YH): "al-dimāʾ" (the blood). [variant reading]
(2) In (M): "mā" instead of "alladhī."
(3) Ṣaḥīḥ li-ghayrihī (sound due to corroborating evidence); the narrators of its chain are trustworthy, except that it is interrupted between Sulaymān and Umm Salamah according to the view of the author and al-Bayhaqī, as will follow. Moreover, there is disagreement concerning it regarding Nāfiʿ:
Aḥmad (26716) and Abū Dāwūd (274) recorded it via Mālik, with this chain.
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar followed Mālik in his narration from Nāfiʿ, as will come at number 354.
Al-Layth differed from them both — as in the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd (275) — for he narrated it from Nāfiʿ, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, that a man informed him from Umm Salamah, thus adding a man between Sulaymān and Umm Salamah in the chain. There are other differences in the narrations of the ḥadīth from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, al-Layth, and others; see the commentary on the ḥadīth of al-Musnad (26510).
The author said in al-Sunan al-Kubrā following (218), and al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā 1/333: Sulaymān ibn Yasār did not hear it from Umm Salamah. Ibn al-Turkumānī said in al-Jawhar al-Naqī (in the Sunan edition): It is possible that he heard this ḥadīth from her, and from a man on her authority — and Allah knows best.
The ḥadīth has already preceded with sound narrations, and see what follows it; it will be repeated at number 355. =