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139. Umm Salamah narrated: “The time of waiting for Nifās during the time of Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ was forty days. We used to cover our faces with a reddish-brown Wars.”[2] (Hasan)
Abū ‘Eisā said: This Hadīth [is Gharīb]; we do not know of it except as a narration of Abū Sahl, from Mussah Al-Azdiyyah, from Umm Salamah.
Abū Sahl’s name is Kathīr bin Ziyād.
Muḥammad bin Ismā‘īl said: “‘Alī bin ‘Abdul-A‘lā (one of the narrators) is trustworthy, and Abū Sahl is trustworthy.
Muḥammad did not know this Hadīth to be from other than the narration of Abū Sahl.
The people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, the Tābi‘īn, and those after them agree that the woman experiencing Nifās leaves the prayer for forty days, unless she sees that she has become pure before that, then she is to perform Ghusl and pray.
If she sees blood after forty days, then most of the people of knowledge say that she does not leave the prayer after forty days. This is the opinion of most of the Fuqahā’.
It is the saying of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Ibn Al-Mubārak, Ash-Shāfi'ī, Ahmad and Ishāq.
It has been related that Al-Hasan Al-Baṣrī said: "She leaves the prayer for fifty days if she does not see that she is pure."
'Aṭā' bin Abī Rabāḥ and Ash-Sha'bi, has been reported to say: "Sixty days."
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Footnotes
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[1] Bleeding after childbirth.
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[2] Wars is normally used to refer to a plant that is used to produce a yellowish dye. It is occasionally used to refer to dyeing in general.
Commentary
Nifās is the childbirth bleeding. Nufasā' is woman with childbirth bleeding.
There is no minimum specific period of Nifās, according to the consensus; and sometimes it does not even appear. In this case the woman will start offering prayer after taking a bath. There is disagreement about its maximum period; as Imām Tirmidhi quoted. The preferred view is of forty days, it is also supported by the mentioned Hadīth.
