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3546. It was narrated from Abū Salamah bin ‘Abdur-Raḥmān that Zainab bint Abī Salamah told him, from her mother, Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ: “That a woman from Aslam who was called Subai‘ah was married to her husband, and he died while she was pregnant. Abū As-Sanābil bin Ba‘kak proposed to her but she refused to marry him. He said: ‘You cannot get married until you have observed Iddah for the longer of the two periods.’ Approximately twenty days later she gave birth. She went to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and he said: ‘Get married.’” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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Commentary
It transpires from the outward wordings (of the Hadīth) that Abū Al-Sanābil had made the proposal immediately after the husband’s death, but this is not correct. In actuality, he had proposed after the birth of the child.
