The woman having bleeding after delivery (puerperal haemorrhage) would refrain (from prayer) for forty days or forty nights; and we would anoint our faces with an aromatic herb called wars to remove dark spots. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 311)
كَانَتْ النُّفَسَاءُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ تَقْعُدُ بَعْدَ نِفَاسِهَا أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً قَالَتْ وَكُنَّا نَطْلِي عَلَى وُجُوهِنَا الْوَرْسَ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
The woman having bleeding after delivery (puerperal haemorrhage) would refrain (from prayer) for forty days or forty nights; and we would anoint our faces with an aromatic herb called wars to remove dark spots.
كَانَتِ النُّفَسَاءُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَقْعُدُ بَعْدَ نِفَاسِهَا أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً وَكُنَّا نَطْلِي عَلَى وُجُوهِنَا الْوَرْسَ يَعْنِي مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
"The time of waiting for Nifas during the time of AIlah's Messenger was forty days. We used to cover our faces with reddish-brown Wars."
كَانَتِ النُّفَسَاءُ تَجْلِسُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا فَكُنَّا نَطْلِي وُجُوهَنَا بِالْوَرْسِ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
"At the time of the Messenger of Allah, women in postnatal bleeding (after childbirth) used to wait for forty days, and we used to put Wars on our faces because of freckles."
كَانَتِ النُّفَسَاءُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَجْلِسُ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا وَكُنَّا نَطْلِي وُجُوهَنَا بِالْوَرْسِ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
The woman having bleeding after delivery (puerperal haemorrhage) would refrain (from prayer) for forty days or forty nights; and we would anoint our faces with an aromatic herb called wars to remove dark spots. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 311)
كَانَتِ النُّفَسَاءُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ تَقْعُدُ بَعْدَ نِفَاسِهَا أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً شَكَّ أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ وَكُنَّا نَطْلِي عَلَى وُجُوهِنَا الْوَرْسَ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
"At the time of the Messenger of Allah, women in postnatal bleeding (after childbirth) used to wait for forty days, and we used to put Wars on our faces because of freckles." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 648)
عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَتْ كَانَتْ النُّفَسَاءُ تَجْلِسُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا وَكُنَّا نَطْلِي وُجُوهَنَا بِالْوَرْسِ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
The woman having bleeding after delivery (puerperal haemorrhage) would refrain (from prayer) for forty days or forty nights; and we would anoint our faces with an aromatic herb called wars to remove dark spots. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 311)
كَانَتْ النُّفَسَاءُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ تَقْعُدُ بَعْدَ نِفَاسِهَا أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً وَكُنَّا نَطْلِي عَلَى وُجُوهِنَا الْوَرْسَ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ
"The time of waiting for Nifas during the time of AIlah's Messenger was forty days. We used to cover our faces with reddish-brown Wars." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 139)
«كَانَتِ النُّفَسَاءُ تَجْلِسُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً فَكَانَتْ إِحْدَانَا تَطْلِي الْوَرْسَ عَلَى وَجْهِهَا مِنَ الْكَلَفِ»
[Machine] "Women used to stay at home for forty nights after giving birth, and we would pray with marks on our faces from the callus."
«كَانَتِ النِّسَاءُ تَقْعُدُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بَعْدَ نِفَاسِهَا أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً وَكُنَّا نُصَلِّي وَعَلَى وُجُوهِنَا الْوَرْسُ مِنَ الْكَلَفِ»