Sunan an-Nasa'i 3533c

Translation

"I heard Umm Salamah say: 'A woman came to the Messenger of Allah and said: O Messenger of Allah, my daughter's husband has died and she has a problem in her eye; can I put kohl on her? The Messenger of Allah said: No. Then he said: It is four months and ten days. During the Jahiliyyah one of you would throw a piece of dung at the end of the year.'" Humaid said: "I said to Zainab: 'What is this throwing a piece of dung at the end of the year?' She said: 'If a woman's husband died, she would enter a small room (Hifsh) and wear her worst clothes, and she would not put on perfume or anything until a year. Then an animal would be brought, a donkey or sheep or bird, and she would end her 'Iddah with it (clean herself with it), and usually any animal used for that purpose would die. Then she would come out and would be given a piece of dung which she would throw, then she would go back to whatever she wanted of perfume, etc.'" In the narration of Muhammad (bin Salamah) Malik said: Hifsh means hut.

Notes

• قَالَ حُمَيْدٌ فَقُلْتُ لِزَيْنَبَ وَمَا تَرْمِي بِالْبَعْرَةِ عِنْدَ رَأْسِ الْحَوْلِ قَالَتْ زَيْنَبُ كَانَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ إِذَا تُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا دَخَلَتْ حِفْشًا وَلَبِسَتْ شَرَّ ثِيَابِهَا وَلَمْ تَمَسَّ طِيبًا وَلاَ شَيْئًا حَتَّى تَمُرَّ بِهَا سَنَةٌ ثُمَّ تُؤْتَى بِدَابَّةٍ حِمَارٍ أَوْ شَاةٍ أَوْ طَيْرٍ فَتَفْتَضُّ بِهِ فَقَلَّمَا تَفْتَضُّ بِشَىْءٍ إِلاَّ مَاتَ ثُمَّ تَخْرُجُ فَتُعْطَى بَعْرَةً فَتَرْمِي بِهَا وَتُرَاجِعُ بَعْدُ مَا شَاءَتْ مِنْ طِيبٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ. قَالَ مَالِكٌ تَفْتَضُّ تَمْسَحُ بِهِ فِي حَدِيثِ مُحَمَّدٍ. قَالَ مَالِكٌ الْحِفْشُ الْخُصُّ

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

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
   سمعت
2. 2
   Zaynab bt. Abī Salamah al-Makhzūmīyah

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

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 113 AH
   حميد بن نافع حميد صفيراثقة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 135 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 136 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's book: 144 AH. Also said: 130 AH
   عبد الله بن أبي بكر بن محمد ابن حزمثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مالك بن أنسالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   عن
6. 6
   Ibn al-Qāsim

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 191 AH
   عبد الرحمن بن القاسم العتقيثقة
   أنبأنا
7. 7
   wa-al-Ḥārith b. Miskīn

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 248 AH or 249 AH or 250 AH
   الحارث بن مسكينثقة فقيه
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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