300 — “Scrape it with a stick and wash it with water and sidr (lote leaves).”

It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (1/141, with the commentary of ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd), al-Nasāʾī (1/69), al-Dārimī (1/239), Ibn Mājah (1/217), Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ (235), al-Bayhaqī (2/407), and Aḥmad (6/355, 356), through routes from Sufyān, who said: Thābit al-Ḥaddād related to me; ʿAdī ibn Dīnār related to me, saying: I heard Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan say:

“I asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about menstrual blood that gets on a garment. He said…” and then cited it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission, and all its narrators are trustworthy. There is only slight disagreement concerning Thābit al-Ḥaddād—who is Thābit ibn Hurmuz al-Kūfī, the client of Bakr ibn Wāʾil. Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, Ibn al-Madīnī, and others declared him trustworthy, while some criticised him without proof. Al-Taqrīb states: “Truthful, but makes mistakes.”

Perhaps for this reason al-Ḥāfiẓ did not declare its chain of transmission authentic in al-Fatḥ (1/266), but rather said: “Its chain of transmission is good.” In al-Tahdhīb, he said:

“Ibn Khuzaymah and Ibn Ḥibbān included his hadith concerning menstruation in their respective Ṣaḥīḥs, and Ibn al-Qaṭṭān declared it authentic, saying afterward: ‘I know of no hidden defect in it. Thābit is trustworthy, and I know of no one who deemed him weak besides al-Dāraquṭnī.’”

In al-Talkhīṣ (pp. 12–13), he cited and endorsed Ibn al-Qaṭṭān’s authentication of it, and this is correct.

Note: The wording “with a ḍilaʿ” occurs with a dotted ḍād in the versions of all those who recorded the hadith. It is pronounced with a kasrah on the ḍād and a fatḥah on the lām, though the lām may also be pronounced with a kasrah; it means a stick.

However, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Talkhīṣ (13):