had once refused meat that had been offered to him. (1)

Likewise, ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “Whenever I heard a hadith directly from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Allah allowed me to benefit from it as He willed. But when someone else reported a hadith to me, I would make him swear by Allah; if he swore, I accepted his word. Abu Bakr once narrated to me—and Abu Bakr is truthful—the well-known report about ṣalāt al-tawbah (the Prayer of Repentance). (2)

He, Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them), and others also issued the ruling that if a deceased man’s wife is pregnant, her waiting period is the longer of the two terms. The Prophet’s ﷺ Sunnah concerning Subayʿah al-Aslamiyyah—whose husband Saʿd ibn Khawlah had died—had not yet reached them: the Prophet ﷺ had instructed her that her ʿiddah ends with the delivery of her child. (3)