The statement of Umm Salama: (I will weep for him a weeping that will be talked about, so I prepared myself to weep for him). Did she not know that wailing is forbidden?
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The questioner : The statement of Umm Salama: Mishkat al-Masabih 1744 Was her intention by the wailing to mention his virtues and eulogize him?
The Shaykh : There is a possibility in that.
The questioner : Was it not established among them that wailing is forbidden?
The Shaykh : No, weeping for the deceased was established among them; its ruling is well-known and recognized. Yes, it is talked about; people say that she wept for him intensely, which indicates that she was deeply grieved and that he was highly esteemed by her.
The questioner : I understood that she was saying poetry in it.
The Shaykh : It is not apparent; it is weeping.
The questioner : This is what people talk about.
The Shaykh : Intense weeping is also talked about, and she did not say it is talked about in the sense that it is said: No one wept like Umm Salama wept for her husband.
she would weep for him in a manner which would be talked of
لأبكينه بكاءً يتحدّث عنهThe Shaykh : There is a possibility in that.
The questioner : Was it not established among them that wailing is forbidden?
The Shaykh : No, weeping for the deceased was established among them; its ruling is well-known and recognized. Yes, it is talked about; people say that she wept for him intensely, which indicates that she was deeply grieved and that he was highly esteemed by her.
The questioner : I understood that she was saying poetry in it.
The Shaykh : It is not apparent; it is weeping.
The questioner : This is what people talk about.
The Shaykh : Intense weeping is also talked about, and she did not say it is talked about in the sense that it is said: No one wept like Umm Salama wept for her husband.