Sunan Ibn Majah 642
How a menstruating woman should bathe
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ صَفِيَّةَ تُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ
أَنَّ أَسْمَاءَ سَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْغُسْلِ مِنَ الْمَحِيضِ فَقَالَ تَأْخُذُ إِحْدَاكُنَّ مَاءَهَا وَسِدْرَهَا فَتَطْهُرُ فَتُحْسِنُ الطُّهُورَ أَوْ تَبْلُغُ فِي الطُّهُورِ ثُمَّ تَصُبُّ عَلَى رَأْسِهَا فَتَدْلُكُهُ دَلْكًا شَدِيدًا حَتَّى تَبْلُغَ شُئُونَ رَأْسِهَا ثُمَّ تَصُبُّ عَلَيْهَا الْمَاءَ ثُمَّ تَأْخُذُ فِرْصَةً مُمَسَّكَةً فَتَطْهُرُ بِهَا قَالَتْ أَسْمَاءُ كَيْفَ أَتَطَهَّرُ بِهَا قَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ تَطَهَّرِي بِهَا قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ كَأَنَّهَا تُخْفِي ذَلِكَ تَتَبَّعِي بِهَا أَثَرَ الدَّمِ قَالَتْ وَسَأَلَتْهُ عَنِ الْغُسْلِ مِنَ الْجَنَابَةِ فَقَالَ تَأْخُذُ إِحْدَاكُنَّ مَاءَهَا فَتَطْهُرُ فَتُحْسِنُ الطُّهُورَ أَوْ تَبْلُغُ فِي الطُّهُورِ حَتَّى تَصُبَّ الْمَاءَ عَلَى رَأْسِهَا فَتَدْلُكُهُ حَتَّى تَبْلُغَ شُئُونَ رَأْسِهَا ثُمَّ تُفِيضُ الْمَاءَ عَلَى جَسَدِهَا فَقَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ نِعْمَ النِّسَاءُ نِسَاءُ الأَنْصَارِ لَمْ يَمْنَعْهُنَّ الْحَيَاءُ أَنْ يَتَفَقَّهْنَ فِي الدِّينِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- Shuʿbah
- Ibrāhīm b. Muhājir
- Ṣafiyyah Tuḥaddith
- ʿĀʾishah
Asma asked the Messenger of Allah about bathing after ones's period. He said: "One of you should take her water and lote leaves, and purify herself well, or thoroughly. Then she should pour water over her head and rub it vigorously so that the water reaches the roots of her hair. Then she should take a piece of cotton perfumed with musk and purify herself with it." Asma said: "How should I purify myself with it?" He said: "Subhan Allah! Purify yourself with it!" 'Aishah said, as if whispering to her: "Wipe away the traces of blood with it." Then she (Asma) asked him about bathing to cleanse oneself from sexual impurity. He said: "One of you should take her water, and purify herself, and purify herself well, or thoroughly. She should pour water over her head and rub it so that the water reaches the roots of her hair, then she should pour water over her body." 'Aishah said: "How good were the women of the Ansar! For they did not let shyness keep them from understanding their religion properly."
Notes
فَقَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ نِعْمَ النِّسَاءُ نِسَاءُ الأَنْصَارِ لَمْ يَمْنَعْهُنَّ الْحَيَاءُ أَنْ يَتَفَقَّهْنَ فِي الدِّينِ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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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).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 684 - 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.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 684 - 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).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 684
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 315Sahih Muslim 332aSahih Muslim 332bSunan Abi Dawud 4100Musnad Ahmad 25551Sunan ad-Darimi 1201
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاتحدث عن
- She saw the Prophet (ruʾyah).d. She lived until the time of al-Walīd.صَفِيَّةَلها رؤيةسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq), soft in memoryd. between 121 and 130 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍصدوق، لين الحفظعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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