A group of men from the Banu Hashim came to visit Asma bint Umays, and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, who was married to her at the time, entered and saw them. He disliked what he saw and mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, saying, "I saw nothing but good."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, "Allah has cleared her of any wrongdoing."Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood upon the pulpit and declared, "After this day of mine, no man shall enter upon a woman whose husband is absent unless he is accompanied by one or two other men."
حدثنا هارون بن معروف ومعاوية بن عمرو قالا حدثنا ابن وهب حدثني عمرو أن بكر بن سوادة حدثه أن عبد الرحمن بن جبير حدثه أن
أن نفرا من بني هاشم دخلوا على أسماء بنت عميس فدخل أبو بكر الصديق وهي تحته يومئذ فرآهم فكره ذلك فذكر ذلك لرسول الله ﷺ فقال لم أر إلا خيرا فقال رسول الله ﷺ إن الله قد برأها من ذلك ثم قام رسول الله ﷺ على المنبر فقال لا يدخلن رجل بعد يومي هذا على مغيبة إلا ومعه رجل أو اثنان
Its isnad is sahih. Amr is Ibn Harith bin Yaqub Ansari Misri, whose reliability was established earlier at 2622. Bakr bin Sawada Judhami, with the jeem vowelled with damma and the dhal unshaddaded, was a trustworthy tabii. Ibn Main, Nasai, and others confirmed his reliability. Bukhari gave his biography in al-Kabir 1/2/89-90, as did Ibn Saad in al-Tabaqat 7/2/202, and Abu Bakr Maliki in Riyad al-Nufus 1:74, among the ten whom Umar bin Abdul-Aziz sent to teach the people of Ifriqiyah the fiqh of their religion. Abu Arab likewise mentioned them among that group in Tabaqat Ulama Ifriqiyah (p. 20).Muslim related this hadith 2:177 from Wahb bin Maruf and Abu Tahir Ahmad bin Amr bin Sarh, both of them from Ibn Wahb, with this same isnad.Al-mughibah and al-mughib, with the meem vowelled with damma, refer to a woman whose husband is away from her.