English translation
1193. Al-Aswad narrated from Abū As-Sanābil bin Ba'kak who said: "Subai'ah delivered twenty-three or twenty-five days after her husband had died. So when she was ready (finished post-natal bleeding) she adorned herself for marriage, but she was rebuked for doing that, so it was mentioned to the Prophet ﷺ and he said: 'If she has done that then her time has come.'" (Hasan) (Another chain with a similar narration) (He said:) There is something on this topic from Umm Salamah. (Abū 'Eisā said:) The Hadīth of Abū As-Sanābil is a well known Hadīth that is Gharīb from this route; we do not know of anything from Al-Aswad from Abū As-Sanābil. I heard Muḥammad saying: "I do not know that Abū As-Sanābil lived after the Prophet ﷺ." This is acted upon according to most of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others. It is lawful for the pregnant woman whose husband dies to seek marriage when she gives birth, even though her Iddah has not transpired. This is the view of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Ash-Shāfi'ī, Aḥmad, and Ishāq. Some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others said that she remains in her Iddah until the end of the two terms.[1] But the first view is more correct.