حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ أَخْبَرَنَا زُهَيْرٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَی عَنْ أَبِي سَهْلٍ عَنْ مُسَّةَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ کَانَتْ النُّفَسَائُ عَلَی عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَقْعُدُ بَعْدَ نِفَاسِهَا أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً وَکُنَّا نَطْلِي عَلَی وُجُوهِنَا الْوَرْسَ تَعْنِي مِنْ الْکَلَفِ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 311
Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Muminin: 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.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020