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Sahih al-Bukhari 5338

Can a mourning lady use kohl?

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حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ عَنْ زَيْنَبَ ابْنَةِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أُمِّهَا

أَنَّ امْرَأَةً تُوُفِّيَ زَوْجُهَا فَخَشُوا عَلَى عَيْنَيْهَا فَأَتَوْا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَاسْتَأْذَنُوهُ فِي الْكُحْلِ فَقَالَ لاَ تَكَحَّلْ قَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ تَمْكُثُ فِي شَرِّ أَحْلاَسِهَا أَوْ شَرِّ بَيْتِهَا فَإِذَا كَانَ حَوْلٌ فَمَرَّ كَلْبٌ رَمَتْ بِبَعَرَةٍ فَلاَ حَتَّى تَمْضِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ādam b. Abū Iyās
  2. Shuʿbah
  3. Ḥumayd b. Nāfiʿ
  4. Zaynab Āb.ah Um Salamah
  5. her mother

A woman was bereaved of her husband and her relatives worried about her eyes (which were diseased). They came to Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and asked him to allow them to treat her eyes with kohl, but he said, "She should not apply kohl to her eyes. (In the Pre-Islamic period of Ignorance) a widowed woman among you would stay in the worst of her clothes (or the worst part of her house) and when a year had elapsed, if a dog passed by her, she would throw a globe of dung, Nay, (she cannot use kohl) till four months and ten days have elapsed."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Hibban 4304aal-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15561al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11006

Narrators

  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. Zaynab bt. Abī Salamah al-Makhzūmīyah
    Stepdaughter of the Prophet ﷺ (rabībat al-Nabī)d. 73 AH
    زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَربيبة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
    عن
  3. Ḥumayd b. Nāfiʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 113 AH
    حُمَيْدُ بْنُ نَافِعٍثقة
    حدثنا
  4. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  5. Ādam
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, also said: 221 AH
    آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  6. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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