Sunan Abi Dawud 314

Translation

Asma' entered upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: Messenger of Allah, how should one of us take bath when she is purified from her menses ? He said: She should take water mixed with the leaves of lote-tree; then should perform ablution and wash her head and rub it so much so that water reaches the roots of the hair; she should then our water upon her body. Then she should take a piece of cloth (or cotton or wool) and purify with it. She asked: Messenger of Allah, how should I purify with it ? 'Aishah said: I understood what he (the Prophet) said metaphorically. I, therefore, said to her: Remove the marks of blood.

Notes

• قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ أَتَطَهَّرُ بِهَا قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ فَعَرَفْتُ الَّذِي يَكْنِي عَنْهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقُلْتُ لَهَا تَتَّبِعِينَ بِهَا آثَارَ الدَّمِ

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• ابن عدي

  إبراهيم بن مهاجر أحاديثه صالحة يحمل بعضها بعضا وحديثه يكتب في الضعفاء

  machine translationThe aḥādīth of Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir are acceptable (ṣāliḥah); some of them support others, and his ḥadīth is to be written down among the weak narrators (ḍuʿafāʾ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 314
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه إبراهيم بن مهاجر واختلف عنه فرواه الأعمش والثوري عن إبراهيم بن مهاجر عن صفية بنت شيبة عن عائشة وقال الليث عن إبراهيم بن مهاجر عن مجاهد أو غيره عن عائشة والصحيح قول من قال عن صفية بنت شيبة عن عائشة

  machine translationIbrāhīm b. Muhājir narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Al-Aʿmash and al-Thawrī narrated it from Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir, from Ṣafiyyah bt. Shaybah, from ʿĀʾishah. Al-Layth said: from Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir, from Mujāhid or someone else, from ʿĀʾishah. The sound (ṣaḥīḥ) view is the statement of those who said: from Ṣafiyyah bt. Shaybah, from ʿĀʾishah. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 314
• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  لفظ فتدلكه دلكا شديدا حتى يبلغ الماء أصول شعرها أتى بها إبراهيم بن المهاجر وهو ليس بقوي وأخرجه مسلم في المتابعات

  machine translationThe wording "she should rub it vigorously until the water reaches the roots of her hair" was brought by Ibrāhīm b. al-Muhājir, who is not strong (laysa bi-qawī). Muslim recorded him in the corroborating reports (al-mutābaʿāt). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 314

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 272Sunan an-Nasa'i 420Musnad Ahmad 24839Sunan ad-Darimi 1199al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 840

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   Ṣafīyah bt. Shaybah al-Ḥajabīyah

   She saw the Prophet (ruʾyah).d. She lived until the time of al-Walīd.
   صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ شَيْبَةَلها رؤية
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir

   truthful (ṣadūq), soft in memoryd. between 121 and 130 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍصدوق، لين الحفظ
   عن
4. 4
   Abū al-Aḥwaṣ

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 179 AH
   سَلَّامُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍثقة , متقن , صاحب حديث
   نا
5. 5
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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