Sunan Abi Dawud 311

سنن أبي داود#311Sahih

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

Scholarly Authentication

We show the most cautious grade (weakest-wins) as the overall label. Individual scholars graded it as follows:

Al-AlbaniHasan Sahih
Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul HamidHasan Sahih
Shuaib Al ArnautHasan Lighairihi
Zubair Ali ZaiHasan

In-book reference: 1:311