𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 (539)

Can a woman adorn herself for potential suitors? Sheikh Abu Bakr Al-Hammadi states: I say: The fundamental basis for the permissibility of this matter is what was narrated by Al-Bukhārī (no. 3991) and Muslim (no. 1484), through the chain of Ibn Shihāb, who said: ʿUbaydullāh ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn ʿUtbah narrated to me that his father wrote to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn Al-Arqam Az-Zuhrī, instructing him to visit Subayʿah bint Al-Ḥārith Al-Aslamiyyah and ask her about her account and about what the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ had said to her when she sought his legal opinion. ʿUmar ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn Al-Arqam then wrote to ʿAbdillāh ibn ʿUtbah, informing him that Subayʿah bint Al-Ḥārith told him that she had been married to Saʿd ibn Khawlah, who was from Banū ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy and was among those who witnessed the Battle of Badr. He passed away while she was with him during the Farewell Pilgrimage, and she was pregnant at the time. She did not remain long thereafter before she delivered her pregnancy following his death. When she had recovered from her postnatal bleeding, she adorned herself for potential suitors. Abū As-Sanābil ibn Baʿkak, a man from Banū ʿAbd Ad-Dār, entered upon her and said to her, “Why do I see you adorning yourself for suitors? Are you hoping for marriage? By Allāh, you are not to marry until four months and ten days have passed over you.” Subayʿah said: “When he said that to me, I gathered my garments upon myself that evening and went to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. I asked him about that, and he gave me a legal ruling that I had become lawful [to remarry] when I delivered my pregnancy, and he instructed me to marry if I so wished.” I say: Al-Bukhārī cited this narration in a suspended form with this wording, and he connected it in an abridged form in other places... Al-Ḥāfidh Ibn Ḥajar rahimahullah said in Fatḥ Al-Bārī (9/475): “In this narration there is evidence for the permissibility of a woman adorning herself, after the completion of her waiting period, for one who seeks her hand. This is because in the narration of Az-Zuhrī found in Al-Maghāzī it states: ‘He said, “Why do I see you adorning yourself for suitors?”’ In the narration of Ibn Isḥāq it states: ‘She prepared herself for marriage and applied hennah.’ In the narration of Maʿmar from Az-Zuhrī, as reported by Aḥmad, it states: ‘Abū As-Sanābil encountered her while she had applied kohl.’ And in the narration of Al-Aswad it states: ‘She beautified herself and made herself presentable.’” End quote. The point of evidence here is that the Prophet ﷺ did not object to her adorning herself for suitors so that they might look at her... Source: https://t.me/womensbenefits/1385