Hadith 5338

Can a mourning lady use koh!?

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Darussalam · Volume 7

68 - THE BOOK OF DIVORCE

Sahih al-Bukhari Darussalam English translation

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Shamela Arabic edition

الحديث: 5338 ¦ الجزء: 7 ¦ الصفحة: 60

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English translation

5338. Narrated Umm Salama رضي الله عنها: A woman was bereaved of her husband and her relatives worried about her eyes (which were inflamed from a disease). They came to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and asked him to allow them to treat her eyes with koh!, but he said, "She should not apply koh! to her eyes. (In the Pre-Islāmic Period of Ignorance) a widowed woman among you would stay in the worst of her clothes (or the worst part of her house) and when a year had elapsed, if a dog passed by her, she would throw a globe of dung. Nay, (she cannot use koh!) till four months and ten days have passed."

Arabic text

5338 - حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أُمِّهَا، أَنَّ امْرَأَةً تُوُفِّيَ زَوْجُهَا، فَخَشُوا عَلَى عَيْنَيْهَا، فَأَتَوْا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَاسْتَأْذَنُوهُ فِي الكُحْلِ، فَقَالَ: «لاَ تَكَحَّلْ، قَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ تَمْكُثُ فِي شَرِّ أَحْلاَسِهَا أَوْ شَرِّ بَيْتِهَا، فَإِذَا كَانَ حَوْلٌ فَمَرَّ كَلْبٌ رَمَتْ بِبَعَرَةٍ، فَلاَ حَتَّى تَمْضِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرٌ»،

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