Some Abyssinians were performing a display in Medina, so Ayesha rested her chin on the shoulder of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and watched them.
كان زنج يلعبون بالمدينة، فوضعت عائشة حنكها على منكب رسول الله ﷺ، وجعلت تنظر إليهم.
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Nasai narrated it in Kubra (8907), from Muhammad bin Muthanna, who said, Muhammad (that is, Ibn Jafar Ghundar) narrated to us, Shuba narrated to us, from Hajjaj bin Asim, from Abu Aswad, from Amr bin Hurayth, who said, and then he related it.Its chain is hasan because of Abu Aswad Muharibi, the freed slave of the sons of Amr bin Hurayth, the judge of Kufa, whose name was Suwayd. Hajjaj bin Asim Muharibi and Misar bin Kidam narrated from him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators in Thiqat. He belongs to the generation of the Tabiin, and his hadiths have sound foundations without any objectionable content, so a narrator like him is graded hasan, and this hadith is one of his.Hajjaj bin Asim is Muharibi Kufi, the judge of Kufa during the time of Abu Burda bin Abu Musa Ashari. Abu Hatim said, "A shaykh," and Ibn Hibban mentioned him among his trustworthy narrators.Amr bin Hurayth is Ibn Uthman bin Abdullah Qurashi Makhzumi, a minor companion who died in the year eighty-five.As for his statement "Zanj," they are a people from among the Sudan. And his statement "hanakaha" (rubbed the palate), the hanak of a human or an animal is the upper inner part of the mouth, the place where the veterinarian works the palate of the animal.