Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 1-5

Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 1-5

Chapter 1: Touching a menstruating woman above the izar (waist wrapper).

‘A’isha reported:

When anyone amongst us (amongst the wives of the Holy Prophet) menstruated, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her to tie a waist-wrapper over her (body) and then embraced her. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 1)

‘A’isha reported:

When anyone amongst us was menstruating the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her to tie waist-wrapper daring the time when the menstrual blood profusely flowed and then embraced her; and she (‘A’isha) observed: And who amongst you can have control over his desires as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had over his desires. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 2)

Maimuna (the wife of the Holy Prophet) reported:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) contacted and embraced his wives over the waist-wrapper when they were menstruating. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 3)

Chapter 2: Lying down with a menstruating woman under a single cover.

Kuraibthe freed slave of Ibn Abbas, reported:

I heard it from Maimuna, the wife of the Messenger of Allah (way peace be upon him): The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to lie with me when I menstruated, and there was a cloth between me and him. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 4)

Umm Salama reported:

While I was lying with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in a bed cover I menstruated, so I slipped away and I took up the clothes (which I wore) in menses. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Have you menstruated? I said: Yes. He called me and I lay down. (Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 5)

Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 3 – Hadith 1-5