She informed him of these three reports.Zaynab said, "I visited Umm Habiba when her father Abu Sufyan died. She called for perfume containing a yellow tint, either khaluq or something else, and applied some of it to a young girl, then she touched her own cheeks with it. Then she said, 'By Allah, I have no need for perfume, except that I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "It is not lawful for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for any deceased person more than three nights, except for a husband, for whom it is four months and ten days."'"Zaynab said, "I also visited Zaynab bint Jahsh when her brother died. She called for perfume and applied some of it, then she said, 'By Allah, I have no need for perfume, except that I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, while he was on the pulpit, "It is not lawful for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for any deceased person more than three nights, except for a husband, for whom it is four months and ten days."'"Zaynab said, "I heard my mother Umm Salama say, 'A woman came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, "Messenger of Allah, my daughter's husband has died, and her eye is troubling her. May we apply kohl to it?"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, "No," twice or three times, each time saying, "No." Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "It is only four months and ten days. In the days of ignorance, one of you would throw a piece of dung at the end of a year."'"Humayd said, "I asked Zaynab, 'What does throwing a piece of dung at the end of a year mean?'"Zaynab replied, "When a woman's husband died, she would enter a small, wretched hut, put on her worst clothes, and not touch any perfume or anything else, until a year had passed. Then an animal would be brought to her, a donkey, a sheep, or a bird, and she would rub herself against it to break her state. Rarely did she rub against anything except that it died. Then she would come out and be given a piece of dung, which she would throw away. After that, she could return to whatever she wished of perfume or anything else."
حدثنا القعنبي عن مالك عن عبد الله بن أبي بكر عن حميد بن نافع
أنها أخبرته بهذه الأحاديث الثلاثة قالت زينب دخلت على أم حبيبة حين توفي أبوها أبو سفيان فدعت بطيب فيه صفرة خلوق أو غيره فدهنت منه جارية ثم مست بعارضيها ثم قالت والله ما لي بالطيب من حاجة غير أني سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول لا يحل لامرأة تؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر أن تحد على ميت فوق ثلاث ليال إلا على زوج أربعة أشهر وعشرا قالت زينب ودخلت على زينب بنت جحش حين توفي أخوها فدعت بطيب فمست منه ثم قالت والله ما لي بالطيب من حاجة غير أني سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول وهو على المنبر لا يحل لامرأة تؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر أن تحد على ميت فوق ثلاث ليال إلا على زوج أربعة أشهر وعشرا قالت زينب وسمعت أمي أم سلمة تقول جاءت امرأة إلى رسول الله ﷺ فقالت يا رسول الله إن ابنتي توفي عنها زوجها وقد اشتكت عينها أفنكحلها فقال رسول الله ﷺ لا مرتين أو ثلاثا كل ذلك يقول لا ثم قال رسول الله ﷺ إنما هي أربعة أشهر وعشر وقد كانت إحداكن في الجاهلية ترمي بالبعرة على رأس الحول قال حميد فقلت لزينب وما ترمي بالبعرة على رأس الحول فقالت زينب كانت المرأة إذا توفي عنها زوجها دخلت حفشا ولبست شر ثيابها ولم تمس طيبا ولا شيئا حتى تمر بها سنة ثم تؤتى بدابة حمار أو شاة أو طائر فتفتض به فقلما تفتض بشيء إلا مات ثم تخرج فتعطى بعرة فترمي بها ثم تراجع بعد ما شاءت من طيب أو غيره
Bukhari narrated it, in the chapter on Funerals, in the section on the mourning period observed by a woman for someone other than her husband, hadith no. 1281, 1282, etc., and hadith no. 1486 from the hadith of Malik through this route, and Muslim narrated it, in the chapter on Divorce, in the section on the obligation of mourning during the waiting period following the husband's death.