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(3). 3307. Shahr bin Hawshab said: “Umm Salamah Al-Anṣāriyyah narrated to us, she said: ‘A woman said: “What is this Ma’rūf for which we are not to disobey you in?” He (ﷺ) said: “[That you not wail.]” I said: “O Messenger of Allāh! Verily Banū so-and-so comforted me in the case of my uncle, and I must reciprocate for them.’ But he refused to allow me. So I asked him again numerous times, then he permitted me to reciprocate for them. So after reciprocating for them, I did not wail for anyone else until this time. And there does not remain a woman except that she has wailed, besides me.” (Hasan)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadith is Hasan Gharib. There is something
about this from Umm ‘Aṭiyyah [may Allāh be pleased with her].
‘Abd bin Ḥumaid said: “Umm Salamah Al-Anṣāriyyah is Asmā’ bint Yazīd bin As-Sakan.”
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Footnotes
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[1] Al-Mumtahinah 60:12.
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[2] That is either his wife or his slave-girl.
Commentary
Wailing over the deed, crying with a loud voice, is a bad custom of the women during the time of Jāhiliyyah. Islam commanded to finish it gradually, in the beginning it was said to be disliked but was not forbidden strictly; later on it was gradually declared unlawful. As the earlier ruling was not absolute, so because of the continued persistence by some women, this unreasonable act was allowed once. But it is now forbidden absolutely.
