Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26297

Nasr bin Ali Al-Jahdhami told us, Shuja’ bin Al-Walid Abu Badr told us, on the authority of Ali bin Abdul-Ala, on the authority of Abu Sahl, on the authority of Massa Al-Azdiyya, on the authority of Umm Salamah, said: During the time of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, postpartum women used to sit for forty days, and we used to paint our faces. With the appearance of melasma. Abu Issa said: This is a strange hadith. We do not know it except from the hadith of Abu Sahl about the touch of the Azdiyyah on the authority of Umm Salamah. The name of Abu Sahl is Kathir bin Ziyad. Muhammad bin Ismail said: Ali bin Abdul-Ala is trustworthy, and Abu Sahl is trustworthy. He did not know. Muhammad, this hadith, except for the hadith of Abu Sahl. The people of knowledge among the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the followers and those after them, have unanimously agreed that The postpartum woman abandons prayer for forty days unless she feels pure before that, in which case she should bathe and pray. Blood after forty, as most of the people of knowledge said: Do not give up prayer after forty, and this is the opinion of most jurists. And this is what he says. Sufyan Al-Thawri, Ibn Al-Mubarak, Al-Shafi’i, Ahmad, and Ishaq. It is narrated on the authority of Al-Hasan Al-Basri that he said: Prayer is for fifty days if you do not feel pure. It is narrated on the authority of Ata’ bin Abi Rabah and Al-Sha’bi that it is sixty days.