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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5703

✧ Prohibition of Kohl for Women

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَعْدَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى بْنِ مَعْدَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ نَافِعٍ مَوْلَى الْأَنْصَارِ عَنْ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ

أَنَّ امْرَأَةً مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَتْ إِنَّ ابْنَتِي تُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا وَقَدْ خِفْتُ عَلَى عَيْنِهَا وَهِيَ تُرِيدُ الْكُحْلَ قَالَ «قَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ تَرْمِي بِالْبَعْرَةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ الْحَوْلِ وَإِنَّمَا هِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرٌ» فَقُلْتُ لِزَيْنَبَ مَا رَأْسُ الْحَوْلِ؟ قَالَتْ كَانَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ إِذَا هَلَكَ زَوْجُهَا عَمِدَتْ إِلَى شَرِّ بَيْتٍ لَهَا فَجَلَسَتْ فِيهِ حَتَّى إِذَا مَرَّتْ بِهَا سَنَةٌ خَرَجَتْ وَرَمَتْ وَرَاءَهَا بِبَعَرَةٍ

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Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Maʿdān b. ʿĪsá b. Maʿdān
  2. Ibn Aʿyan
  3. Zuhayr
  4. Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
  5. Ḥumayd b. Nāfiʿ a freed slave of al-Anṣār
  6. Zaynab b. Abū Salamah
  7. Um Salamah

✧ A woman from Quraysh came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said: "My daughter's husband has died, and I fear for her eye; she wants to use kohl." He said: "One of you would throw a piece of dung after the end of a year; but it is only four months and ten (days)." I said to Zaynab: "What is the end of the year?" She said: "In pre-Islamic times, when a woman's husband died, she would go to the worst chamber she had and sit in it until a year passed; then she would come out and throw a piece of dung behind her."

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