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
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Maʿdān b. ʿĪsá b. Maʿdān
- Ibn Aʿyan
- Zuhayr b. Muʿāwiyah
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
- Ḥumayd b. Nāfiʿ a freed slave of al-Anṣār
- Zaynab Bint Abū Salamah
- 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."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | SoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |