(122) باب مَا جَاءَ فِي وَقْتِ النُّفَسَاءِ
Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin:
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. (DE)
Reference (DE): Sunan Abi Dawud 311 (DE)
In-book reference (DE): Book 1, Hadith 311 (DE)
English translation (DE): Book 1, Hadith 311 (DE)