Musnad Ahmad 26766

Translation

✧ A close relative of Umm Habibah died, so she called for saffron and wiped it on her forearms, and said, 'I do this only because of something I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say'—and Hajjaj said: 'because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said'—'It is not lawful for a Muslim woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn more than three days, except for her husband, four months and ten days.'

Notes

• وَحَدَّثَتْهُ زَيْنَبُ عَنْ أُمِّهَا وَعَنْ زَيْنَبَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَوْ عَنِ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْ بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

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Narrators

1. 1
   Umm Salamah Hind bt. Abū Umayyah

   Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AH
   أُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنين
   عن
2. 2
   Zaynab bt. Abī Salamah al-Makhzūmīyah

   Stepdaughter of the Prophet ﷺ (rabībat al-Nabī)d. 73 AH
   زَيْنَبَ بِنْتَ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَربيبة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
   قالت
3. 3
   Ḥumayd b. Nāfiʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 113 AH
   حُمَيْدِ ج١٢ / ص٦٤٦٦بْنِ نَافِعٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثني
5. 5
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   وَحَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.