237 — Suwayd ibn Nasr informed us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn Yazīd, who said: I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz al-Aʿraj say: Nāʿim, the freed slave of Umm Salama, narrated to me that Umm Salama was asked: “May a woman bathe with a man?” She said: “Yes, if she is sensible. You have seen me and the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings be upon him) bathing from a single vessel, pouring water over our hands until we cleaned them, then pouring water over ourselves.” Al-Aʿraj said: She does not mention the private parts, nor does she pay heed to that.

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Also recorded by Aḥmad (26797), Muslim (322), al-Tirmidhī (62), and Ibn Mājah (377) via Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, with this chain of transmission.
Also recorded by al-Bukhārī (253) from Abū Nuʿaym, from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, with this chain of transmission to Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and Maymūna used to bathe from a single vessel. Al-Bukhārī said: Ibn ʿUyaynah used to say at the end: “From Ibn ʿAbbās, from Maymūna,” and what is correct is what Abū Nuʿaym narrated.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said in *Fatḥ al-Bārī* 1/366: Al-Bukhārī only preferred the narration of Abū Nuʿaym following the practice of the ḥadīth scholars, because among their criteria for preference is the earliness of hearing, since that is more likely to indicate the strength of the teacher’s memory. The others’ narration, however, has another aspect of preference, namely that they were greater in number and more constant in their association with Sufyān.

(1) In the margins of (K) and (YH), and above it in (M): “our bodies.”
(2) In (R), (M), and (H): “until they cleaned them.”
(3) Meaning: over our bodies, as al-Sindī interpreted it, and it appears in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* (234): “over us.” That is the more fitting reading.
(4) Its chain of transmission is sound. ʿAbd Allāh is Ibn al-Mubārak, and Saʿīd ibn Yazīd is Abū Shujāʿ al-Qitbānī. It is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under number (234).
Also recorded by Aḥmad (26749) from ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, with this chain of transmission.
Aḥmad (26566), al-Bukhārī (322), and Muslim (296) and (324) also recorded, within a ḥadīth of Zaynab bint Umm Salama, from Umm Salama, who said: “I used to bathe, I and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), from a single vessel due to major ritual impurity.” (Al-Bukhārī’s wording.)

His saying: *tabālahā* — with a fatḥa on the tāʾ; al-Sindī said: Its origin is *tatabālahā*, with two tāʾs, one of which was elided; from *tabālaha* the man: when he shows of himself that which he does not actually have, i.e., she does not do the acts of a foolish woman. End quote. It is recorded in (K) with a ḍamma on the tāʾ, and in (H) and (YH) it appears as *tubālīhi*, and likewise in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* (234).