Narrated Hamnah daughter of Jahsh: Hamnah said my menstruation was great in quantity and severe. So I came to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم for a decision and told him. I found him in the house of my sister, Zaynab, daughter of Jahsh. I said: Messenger of Allah, I am a woman who menstruates in great quantity and it is severe, so what do you think about it? It has prevented me from praying and fasting. He said: I suggest that you should use cotton, for it absorbs the blood. She replied: It is too copious for that. He said: Then take a cloth. She replied: It is too copious for that, for my blood keeps flowing. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: I shall give you two commands; whichever of them you follow, that will be sufficient for you without the other, but you know best whether you are strong enough to follow both of them. He added: This is a stroke of the Devil, so observe your menses for six or seven days, Allah alone knows which it should be; then wash. And when you see that you are purified and quite clean, pray during twenty-three or twenty-four days and nights and fast, for that will be enough for you, and do so every month, just as women menstruate and are purified at the time of their menstruation and their purification. But if you are strong enough to delay the noon (Zuhr) prayer and advance the afternoon (Asr) prayer, to wash, and then combine the noon and the afternoon prayer; to delay the sunset prayer and advance the night prayer, to wash, and then combine the two prayers, do so: and to wash at dawn, do so: and fast if you are able to do so if possible. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Of the two commands this is more to my liking. 1 Abu Dawud said: Amr bin Thabit narrated from Ibn Aqil: Hamnah said: Of the two commands this is the one which is more to my liking. 2 In this version these words were not quoted as the statement of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم; it gives it as a statement of Hamnah. Abu Dawud said: Amr bin Thabit was a Rafidi. This has been said by Yahya bin Main. Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad (b. Hanbal) say: I am doubtful about the tradition transmitted by Ibn Aqil.
Read More..Aishah, wife of Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, said: Umm Habibah, daughter of Jahsh, sister-in-law of Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and wife of Abdur-Rahman bin Awf, had a flow of blood for seven years. She asked the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about it. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: This is not menstruation but only vein; so you should take a bath and pray. Aishah said: She used to take bath in a wash-tub in the apartment of her sister Zainab daughter of Jahsh ; the redness of (her) blood dominated the water.
Read More..This tradition has been transmitted through a different chain of narrators. According to this version. Aishah said: She would wash herself for every prayer.
Read More..This has been narrated though a different chain of narrators by Aishah. This version has the words: She used to take a bath for every prayer. Abu Dawud said: Al-Qasim bin Mabrur reported from Yunus from Ibn Shihab from Amrah from Aishah from Umm Habibah daughter of Jahsh. Similarly, it was reported by Mamar from al-Zuhri from Amrah from Aishah. Mamar sometimes reported from Amrah on the authority of Umm Habibah to the same effect. Similarly, it was reported by Ibrahim bin Saad and Ibn Uyainah from al-Zuhri from Amrah from Aishah. Ibn Uyainah said in his version: He (al-Zuhri) did not say that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم commanded her to take bath. It has also been transmitted by al-Awzai in a similar way. In this version he said: Aishah said: She used to take bath for very prayer.
Read More..Aishah said: Umm Habibah had a prolonged flow of blood for seven years. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم commanded her to take bath; so shed used to take bath for every prayer.
Read More..Aishah said: Umm Habibah had a prolonged flow of blood during the time of Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He commanded her to take bath for every prayer. The narrator then transmitted the tradition (in full). Abu Dawud said: It has also been narrated by Abu al-Walid al-Tayalisi, but I did not hear him. He reported it from Aishah through a different chain of narrators. Aishah said: Zainab daughter of Jahsh had a prolonged flow of blood. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said to her: Take bath for every prayer. The narrator then reported the tradition (in full). Abu Dawud said: The version transmitted by Abd al-Samad from Sulaiman bin Kathir has: Perform ablution for every prayer. This is a misunderstanding on the part of Abd al-Samad. The correct version is the one narrated by Abu al-Walid.
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