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Darussalam · Volume 4
25. The ChaptersOn Hajj RitualsSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 3073 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 1021
Source no. 3073 · Volume 7 · Page 73
Sahih
صحيح، الإرواء (٤ / ٢٦١)
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3073. It was narrated that 'Aishah said: "The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ mentioned Safiyyah and we said: 'She has got her menses.' He said: "Aqra Halqa"[1] I think that she has detained us.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allâh, she performed Tawâful-Ifâdah on the Day of Sacrifice.' He said: 'No then, tell her to depart.'" (Sahih)
3073 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: ذَكَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ صَفِيَّةَ فَقُلْنَا: قَدْ حَاضَتْ فَقَالَ: «عَقْرَى حَلْقَى مَا أُرَاهَا، إِلَّا حَابِسَتَنَا» فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهَا قَدْ طَافَتْ يَوْمَ النَّحْرِ، قَالَ: «فَلَا، إِذَنْ، مُرُوهَا، فَلْتَنْفِرْ»
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[1] The best explanation of this is what Shaikh Safiur-Rahmân Mubârakpuri said in Minnat Al-Mun'im, his commentary on Sahih Muslim: "The meaning of 'Aqra being: 'May Allâh wound her and cause her harm.' And it is said (it means): '(May He) make her barren without children.' And, it is also said: 'She has harmed her people.' And the meaning of Halqa is shaving her hair - and it is the woman's adornment - or, (it means) may she suffer from pain in her throat, or, she sheered her people with her bad fortune, that is, she destroyed them. These are the basic meanings of these two words. Then the Arabs are quick to say things whose reality they do not mean, as they say: 'May Allâh fight him' and 'May your hands be made dirty' and the like." See also Hadyus-Sâri, An-Nihâyah, and explanation by Sindi.
a. Tawâful-Ifâdah is an integral part of Hajj that is performed on the 10th of Dhul-Hijjah. b. If a woman cannot make Tawâf on the 10th of Dhul-Hijjah due to her menses, she has to do it whenever she becomes pure. c. If a woman has performed Tawâful-Ifâdah, and she is in her menstrual period at the time of returning from Makkah, then she is excused from Farewell Tawâf. d. The saying of the Prophet ﷺ "Aqra Halqa" (be sterile and be shaved) is not a curse but an expression used in the Arab dialect to express inconvenience.