Sunan an-Nasai 3559 — Take Her Back Until She Becomes Pure

Summary of Sunan an-Nasai Hadith 3559

This Hadith reports a question put to Abdullah bin Umar about a man who divorced his wife while she was menstruating. Ibn Umar pointed to his own experience. He had divorced his wife in that state, and Umar went to the Prophet and reported it. The Prophet ordered Ibn Umar to take her back until she became pure. The final words of the narrator are important: he said he did not hear Ibn Umar add anything beyond that. This makes the report useful for careful Hadith reading. Its clear instruction is return until purity, while other details should not be inserted into this particular wording. The narration itself marks the boundary of what the transmitter heard and preserves that limit honestly.