Note / Clarification: The word "lahu" dropped out of manuscripts (Z), (S) and ('A); we have established it from manuscript (B). It is also established in 'Uthman bin Salih's narration from al-Layth in the route before this one. Nevertheless, the curse also extends to the woman if she stipulates that.

Grading: This hadith is "sahih li-ghayrihi" (sahih due to supporting evidence), like the previous one.
Technical note / Defect ('illah): Al-Layth's explicit statement here that he heard from Mishrah is "open to question" (fihi nazar), because we explained in the previous route that Yahya bin Abd Allah bin Bukayr denied that al-Layth heard anything from Mishrah, and that al-Layth narrated this hadith to him from Sulayman bin Abd al-Rahman as "mursal". This Yahya is the "most reliable" (awthaq) of people in narrating from al-Layth, as Ibn 'Adi said, since he was his neighbour. What supports that the mention of hearing here, in the narration of Abu Salih (Abd Allah bin Salih), is an error is that 'Uthman bin Salih al-Misri contradicted him in the previous route in his narration from al-Layth: he did not state hearing explicitly, but presented the narration in a form that strengthens the view that he did not hear it from him. And al-Bukhari said (as reported by al-Tirmidhi in "al-'Ilal" 274): "Abd Allah bin Salih had not brought it out in our days."