Sahih Muslim 1490a
The Obligation to mourn during the 'Iddah following the death of one's husband, but it is forbidden to mourn for more than three days in other cases
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وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى وَقُتَيْبَةُ وَابْنُ رُمْحٍ عَنِ اللَّيْثِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ أَنَّ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتَ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَتْهُ عَنْ حَفْصَةَ أَوْ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَوْ عَنْ كِلْتَيْهِمَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
لاَ يَحِلُّ لاِمْرَأَةٍ تُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ أَوْ تُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ أَنْ تُحِدَّ عَلَى مَيِّتٍ فَوْقَ ثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ إِلاَّ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا
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Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá and Qutaybah and Ibn Rumḥ
- al-Layth b. Saʿd
- Nāfiʿ
- Ṣafiyyah Bint Abū ʿUbayd
- Ḥafṣah Aw
- ʿĀʾishah Aw
- Kiltayhimā
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
It is not permissible for a woman believing in Allah and the Hereafter (or believing in Allah and His Messenger) that she should observe mourning for the dead beyond three days except in case of her husband.
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 939Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 12201al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5705
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 مطلقاعن
- it was said: she lived in the Prophet's time (idrāk), and al-Dāraquṭnī rejected it. And al-ʿIjlī said: trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 and 90 AHصَفِيَّةَ بِنْتَ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍقيل : لها إدراك ، وأنكره الدارقطني . وقال العجلي : ثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AHنَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHاللَّيْثِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 242 AH or 243 AHوَابْنُ رُمْحٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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