Further supplications

Divorce

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5338

لاَ تَكَحَّلْ قَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ تَمْكُثُ فِي شَرِّ أَحْلاَسِهَا أَوْ شَرِّ بَيْتِهَا، فَإِذَا كَانَ حَوْلٌ فَمَرَّ كَلْبٌ رَمَتْ بِبَعَرَةٍ، فَلاَ حَتَّى تَمْضِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرٌ

lā takaḥḥal qad kānat iḥdākunna tamkuthu fī sharri aḥlāsihā aw sharri baytihā, fa-idhā kāna ḥawlun famarra kalbun ramat bibaʿaratin, falā ḥattā tamḍiya arbaʿah ashhurin waʿashrun

Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks

The full narration

Narrated Um Salama: A woman was bereaved of her husband and her relatives worried about her eyes (which were diseased). They came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and asked him to allow them to treat her eyes with kohl, but he said, "She should not apply kohl to her eyes. (In the Pre-Islamic period of Ignorance) a widowed woman among you would stay in the worst of her clothes (or the worst part of her house) and when a year had elapsed, if a dog passed by her, she would throw a globe of dung, Nay, (she cannot use kohl) till four months and ten days have elapsed

Source

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · 5338

Ṣaḥīḥ
    Read it at the source ↗

    Turn to this when