3856 - Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim informed us, saying: Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, saying: Ma'mar informed us, from Ibn Tawus, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who raised it (to the Prophet): "Sulayman said: 'I will surely go around tonight to ninety women, and every woman will give birth to a boy who will fight in the path of Allah.' So it was said to him: 'Say: If Allah wills.' But he did not say it. So he went around to them, and none of them gave birth except one woman, who bore half a human being." The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Had he said 'If Allah wills,' he would not have broken his oath, and it would have been a means of attaining his need."

End of the Book of Oaths and Vows
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= Shaykh Ahmad Shakir, in his commentary on the "Musnad Ahmad," has critiqued al-Bukhari with a beneficial and verified statement, to the effect that al-Bukhari erred in attributing the abridgment of the hadith to Abd al-Razzaq.

One must necessarily consult the commentary on this hadith in the "Musnad Ahmad," Foundation al-Risalah edition.

(1) In one copy, in the margin of (H): seventy; likewise in (M), but above it appears: ninety, with a mark of correctness upon it.
(2) Its chain of transmission is authentic.
It was also recorded by Ahmad (7715), al-Bukhari (5242), and Muslim (1654) via the path of Abd al-Razzaq, with this chain. In the narration of Ahmad and al-Bukhari: "to a hundred women," and in the narration of Muslim: "to seventy women."
It was also recorded by al-Bukhari (6720), Muslim (1624): (23), and Ibn Hibban (4338) via the path of Hisham ibn Hujayr, from Ibn Tawus, with it. The narration of Muslim: "to seventy women."
A similar version preceded it under number (3831) via the path of al-A'raj, from Abu Hurayrah, with it.
Al-Sindi said: His statement "wa-kana darakan" — with two fathahs — meaning: a means of attaining his need.