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Sunan an-Nasa'i 3540

Prohibition Of Kohl For A Woman In Mourning

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

أَنَّ امْرَأَةً مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَتْ إِنَّ ابْنَتِي تُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا وَقَدْ خِفْتُ عَلَى عَيْنِهَا وَهِيَ تُرِيدُ الْكُحْلَ فَقَالَ قَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ تَرْمِي بِالْبَعْرَةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ الْحَوْلِ وَإِنَّمَا هِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًا

Translation

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

"My daughter's husband has died, and I am worried about her eyes; she needs kohl." He said: "One of you used to throw a piece of dung after a year had passed. Rather it (the mourning period) is four months and ten days." I (the narrator) said to Zainab: "What does 'after a year had passed' mean?" She said: "During the Jahiliyyah, if a woman's husband died she would go to the worst room she had and stay there, then, when a year had passed, she would come out and throw a piece of dung behind her."

Notes

  • فَقُلْتُ لِزَيْنَبَ مَا رَأْسُ الْحَوْلِ قَالَتْ كَانَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ إِذَا هَلَكَ زَوْجُهَا عَمَدَتْ إِلَى شَرِّ بَيْتٍ لَهَا فَجَلَسَتْ فِيهِ حَتَّى إِذَا مَرَّتْ بِهَا سَنَةٌ خَرَجَتْ فَرَمَتْ وَرَاءَهَا بِبَعْرَةٍ

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0).hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح النسائي, p. 3542fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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 أَبِي سَلَمَةَربيبة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
    عن
  3. Ḥumayd b. Nāfiʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 113 AH
    حُمَيْدِ بْنِ نَافِعٍ مَوْلَى الْأَنْصَارِثقة
    عن
  4. Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  5. Zuhayr
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 172 AH, or: 173 AH, or: 174 AH, 177 AH
    زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. Al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aʿyan
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 210 AH
    ابْنُ أَعْيَنَصدوق
    حدثنا
  7. Muḥammad b. Maʿdān b. ʿĪsá
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 252 AH, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī said: 260 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَعْدَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة
    أخبرنا
  8. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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