English Translation

Abu Ali al-Rudhbari informed us, from Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Bakr, from Abu Dawud, from Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Abdi, from Ibrahim ibn Nafi' who said: I heard al-Hasan, meaning Ibn Muslim, mentioning it from Mujahid who said: Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "One of us would have only one garment in which she would menstruate. If any blood got on it, she would moisten it with her saliva and rub it off with her saliva." Al-Bukhari narrated it in his Sahih from Abu Nu'aym from Ibrahim ibn Nafi' from Ibn Abi Najih from Mujahid from Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), and he said: "with her saliva, and she rubbed it with her fingernail." Abu Bakr ibn al-Harith informed us of it, from Abu Muhammad ibn Hayyan, from al-Hasan ibn Muhammad, from Abu Zur'ah, from Abu Nu'aym, and he mentioned it with al-Bukhari's chain and text, except that he said "she rubbed it." The well-known version from Ibrahim is from al-Hasan ibn Muslim ibn Yannaq from Mujahid and from Ibn Abi Najih from Ata' from Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her). Khallad ibn Yahya narrated it from Ibrahim as Abu Nu'aym narrated it, so it is authentic from both chains.