Waiting Period

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1. 6030

   When a woman’s husband died, she would go into a small hut, wear her worst clothes and would not touch any kind of perfume until a whole year would pass. Then an animal – a donkey, bird, or sheep – would be brought to her and she would rub her skin with it

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Bukhari & Muslim
2. 6046

   Hadīth of Subay‘ah al-Aslamiyyah regarding ‘Iddah

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Bukhari & Muslim
3. 6086

   A woman should not mourn for any dead person more than three days except her husband, for whom she should mourn four months and ten days

   AuthenticAgreed upon
4. 6091

   It is not lawful for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for a deceased more than three [days], but for her husband, four months and ten days

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Bukhari & Muslim
5. 58134

   The wife of Thābit ibn Qays was separated from her husband by a Khul‘ during the time of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). So the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her to observe a waiting period of one menstrual cycle

   Authentic hadithNarrated by At-Termedhy - Narrated by Abu Daoud
6. 58161

   Barīrah was instructed to observe an ‘Iddah of three menstrual cycles

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Ibn Majah
7. 58163

   No, go and collect the harvest from your trees, for perhaps you will give (some of it in) charity or do a good deed with it

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Muslim
8. 58164

   Stay in your house until the term (of ‘Iddah) lapses. She said: So I spent my ‘Iddah therein (in her husband's house) for four months and ten days

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Ibn Majah - Narrated by At-Termedhy - An-Nasaa’i - Narrated by Abu Daoud - Narrated by Ahmad - Ad-Daarimi
9. 58165

   O Messenger of Allah, my husband has divorced me three times and I am afraid that my house will be broken into

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Muslim
10. 58166

    Do not confuse the Sunnah of our Prophet. The ‘Iddah of a mother-slave girl whose master dies is four months and ten (days)

    Authentic hadithNarrated by Ibn Majah - Narrated by Abu Daoud - Narrated by Ahmad - Maalik
11. 58167

    ‘Urwah ibn Az-Zubayr reported from ‘Ā’ishah that she took Hafsah bint ‘Abdur-Rahmān ibn Abu Bakr As-Siddīq into her house when she was in her third period

    Authentic hadithMaalik
12. 58168

    A slave has two counts of divorce to discharge toward his free wife, who shall observe a waiting period of three menstrual cycles. A free man has two counts of divorce to discharge toward his slave wife, who shall observe a waiting period of two menstrual cycles

    Authentic hadithAl-Bayhaqi - Narrated by Ad-Daraqutny - ‘Abdur-Razzaaq
13. 58170

    A woman whose husband is missing and whose whereabouts is unknown to her must wait for four years and then observe the ‘Iddah (of a widow) for four months and ten days. After that, she is allowed to marry

    No judgment by Shaykh Al-Albaani is availableMaalik
14. 58173

    There should be no sexual intercourse with a pregnant woman until she gives birth, nor with a non-pregnant woman until she has one menstrual cycle

    Authentic hadithNarrated by Abu Daoud - Narrated by Ahmad - Ad-Daarimi