Marriage

If anyone acknowledges that he is the father of his child just for the blinking of an eye, he has no right to disown it."[al-Baihaqi reported it. The Hadith is Hasan (good) and Mawquf (saying of a Companion)].

A man said, "O Allah's Messenger, my wife has given birth to a black son." He asked, "Have you any camels?" He replied, "Yes." He asked, "What is their color?" He replied, "They are red." He asked, "Is there a dusky (dark) one among them?" He replied, "Yes." He asked, "How has that come about?" He replied, "It is perhaps a strain to which it has reverted (i.e. heredity)." He said, "It is perhaps a strain to which this son of yours has reverted."[Agreed upon].

"He did not permit him to disown him"

Some nights after her husband's death, Subai'ah al-Aslamiyah (RA) gave birth to a child. Then she went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and asked permission to marry. He gave her permission and she married.[Reported by al-Bukhari].

Its basic meaning is found in the two Sahih books of al-Bukhari and Muslim.

"She gave birth to a child after forty nights of her husband's death."

az-Zuhri said, "I think there is no harm if she marries when she is still bleeding (due to child-birth), but her husband should not go near her till she is purified."

Barirah was ordered to wait till three menstrual periods of hers have passed (before she could remarry).[Reported by Ibn Majah. Its narrators are reliable, but it is Ma'lul (having a hidden defect)].

"She has no right to accommodation or maintenance."[Reported by Muslim].

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "A woman must not observe her mourning for more than three nights for the one who has died, except for the four months and ten days in the case of her husband; and she must not wear a dyed garment except one of the type made of 'Ash (dyed yarn) or apply Kuhl (antimony), or apply perfume, except for a little Qust or Azfar, when she has been purified after her menstruation."[Agreed upon. The wording being of Muslim].

"nor be dyed (with Henna and the like)."

"nor comb (her hair)."

I put Sabir (a type of medicine) on my eyes after Abu Salamah (RA) had died. So Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "It gives the face a glow, so apply it only at night and remove it in the day time, and do not comb (your hair) with scent or henna, for it is a dye." I asked, "What should I use when combing (my hair)?" He replied, "You should use lote-tree leaves."[Reported by Abu Dawud and an-Nasa'i: its chain of narrators is Hasan (good)].

A woman said: "O Allah's Messenger, my daughter's husband died and her eye is troubling her, so may we apply Kuhl (antimony) to it?" He replied, "No."[Agreed upon].

My maternal aunt was divorced and wanted to cut down fruit from her paml-trees. A man forbade her to go out, so she went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he said, "Certainly, cut down fruit from your palm-trees, for perhaps you have give Sadaqah (charity) or do an act of kindness."[Reported by Muslim].1121. Narrated Furai'ah, daughter of Malik: Her husband had gone out in search of some slaves of his and they killed him. She said, "I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to be allowed to return to my family, for my husband had not left for me a house which belonged to him, nor had he left me maintenance." He then said, "Yes, (I agree)," but when I was in the courtyard, he called me and said, "Stay in your house till the prescribed period expires." She said, "I observed the period in it for four months and ten days." She said, "Afterwards 'Uthman gave judgements in accordance with that."[Ahmad an al-Arba'a reported it. at-Tirmidhi, adh-Dhuhli, Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim and others graded it Sahih (authentic)].

I said, "O Allah's Messenger, my husband has divorced me by three pronouncements (of divorce) and I am afraid that I may get broken into. Hence, he commanded her, and she moved (to another house)."[Reported by Muslim].

"Do not confuse us about our Prophet's Sunnah: The period that a slave-woman, whose master dies, and she has begotten a child from him must wait for, is four months and ten days."[Reported by Ahmad, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah. al-Hakim graded it Sahih (authentic), but ad-Daraqutni considered it defective due to Inqita' (broken link)].

al-Aqra' is the period of a woman's purity (which occurs between two menses).[Malik, Ahmad and an-Nasa'i reported it in the course of a story with a Sahih (authentic) chain of narrators].

The divorce of a slave-woman occurs by saying it (the divorce word) twice, and her 'Iddah (waiting period) is two menses.[Reported by ad-Daraqutni].

He reported it as Marfu' (a saying of the Prophet) and graded it Da'if (weak).