- "Scrape it with a rib and wash it with water and lotus leaves." This 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 various chains from Sufyān: Thābit al-Ḥaddād narrated to me, ʿAdī ibn Dīnār narrated to me, he said: I heard Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan say: "I asked the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) about menstrual blood that is on clothing? He said..." and he mentioned it. I say: This is an authentic chain and all its narrators are trustworthy. There is a slight disagreement regarding Thābit al-Ḥaddād, who is Ibn Hurmaz al-Kūfī, the client of Bakr ibn Wāʾil. He was deemed trustworthy by Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, Ibn al-Madīnī, and others, while some criticized him without evidence. In "al-Taqrīb": "Truthful but makes mistakes." It seems for this reason the ḥāfiẓ did not authenticate its chain in "al-Fatḥ" (1/266), but rather said: "Its chain is good." He said in "al-Tahdhīb": "Ibn Khuzaymah and Ibn Ḥibbān included his ḥadīth on menstruation in their 'Ṣaḥīḥ' collections, and Ibn al-Qaṭṭān authenticated it, saying afterward: I do not know of any defect in it, and Thābit is trustworthy, and I do not know anyone who weakened him except al-Dāraqutnī." In "al-Talkhīṣ" (pp. 12-13), the authentication by Ibn al-Qaṭṭān is mentioned and confirmed, and this is correct. (Note): His statement "with a rib" appears in all who recorded the ḥadīth with the dotted ḍād, and it is with a kasrah and fatḥah on the lām, and it can also be with a kasrah, and it means a stick. However, the ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Talkhīṣ" (13):