WE RELATE IN the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd, with a ḥasan isnād, that ‘Alī 
narrated: “I memorised [this] from the Messenger of Allah 
: ‘One is no longer an orphan after puberty, and there is no keeping silent from day to night.’” [1].
narrated: “I memorised [this] from the Messenger of Allah : ‘One is no longer an orphan after puberty, and there is no keeping silent from day to night.’” [1].We relate in the Ma‘ālim as-Sunan of Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī that he said in his commentary on this hadith: “One of the rituals of the days before Islam was to keep silent. An individual would keep silent for a day and a night without talking. So they were forbidden this—meaning, in Islam—and [people] were commanded to do dhikr and to say good things”.
We relate in the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī that Qays ibn Abī Hāzim, may Allah be merciful to him, narrated that Abū Bakr visited a woman named Zaynab from Aḥmas, and he noticed that she was not speaking. He asked: “What is wrong with her that she does not speak?” They said: “She went on Ḥajj in silence.” He told her: “Speak, for this is not lawful: this is one of the acts of the Days of Ignorance.” She then spoke. [2].
References
[1] Abū Dāwūd (2873).
[2] Al-Bukhārī (3834).