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429. Ja'far bin Muḥammad said: "My father told me: 'We came to Jâbir bin 'Abdullâh and asked him about the Hajj of the Prophet ﷺ. He narrated; "The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ set out when there were five (days) remaining in Dhûl-Qa'dah, and we set out with him. When he came to Dhûl-Hulaifah, Asmâ' bint 'Umais gave birth to Muḥammad bin Abî Bakr. She sent word to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ asking what she should do. He said: 'Perform Ghusl, bind yourself with a cloth then begin (the Talbiyah for Iḥrâm).'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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A woman's bathing herself in the state of postnatal bleeding is merely for the bodily cleanliness or for the weightiness of the sanctity of the pilgrim (the
companion.' So tell me a Hadīth that you heard from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, so that Allāh might benefit me from it. He said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: "The first thing for which a person will be brought to account will be his Ṣalāh. If it is sound then he will have succeeded, be salvaged, but if it is not then he will have lost and be doomed." - (One of the narrators) Hammām said: "I do not know whether this was the words of Qatādah or part of the report." - "If anything is lacking from his obligatory prayers, He will say: 'Look and see whether My slave has any voluntary prayers to make up for what is deficient from his obligatory prayers.' Then all of his deeds will be dealt with in like manner." (Ṣahīh)
We get to know from this Hadīth that one should not lazy about at all in the performance of the Nawāfil (voluntary acts of worship) and the Sunan; such deeds aid in the complementation of the obligatory deeds of worship and may become beneficial in one's elevation of ranks. In this regard, each one of us should ask himself this question: Who could ever claim that his obligatory deeds of worship are so flawless that he does not need to perform voluntary acts of worship?
A woman's bathing herself in the state of postnatal bleeding is merely for the bodily cleanliness or for the weightiness of the sanctity of the pilgrim (the
Ihrâm) and not for purification, because the purificatory bath would be performed only when the postnatal bleeding ends. Tying the waist-wrapper is to ensure that the blood does not smear the body and the garment.
