Umm Atiya said, "We were forbidden to mourn for any deceased person beyond three days, except for a husband, for whom the mourning period was four months and ten days. During that time we were not to apply kohl, wear perfume, or put on dyed clothing, except for a garment of asb cloth. We were permitted, upon purification after one of us bathed from her menstrual period, to use a small portion of qust and azfar. And we were forbidden from following funeral processions."In another narration, Muhammad bin Sirin said, A son of Umm Atiya passed away. On the third day, she called for a yellow perfume and applied it, saying, "We were forbidden to mourn for more than three days, except for a husband."
كنا ننهى أن نحد على ميت فوق ثلاث إلا على زوج أربعة أشهر وعشرا، ولا نكتحل ولا نتطيب ولا نلبس ثوبا مصبوغا إلا ثوب عصب. وقد رخص لنا عند الطهر إذا اغتسلت إحدانا من محيضها في نبذة من كست أظفار. وكنا ننهى عن اتباع الجنائز. وفي رواية: عن محمد بن سيرين قال: توفي ابن لأم عطية. فلما كان اليوم الثالث دعت بصفرة فتمسحت به وقالت: نهينا أن نحد أكثر من ثلاث إلا بزوج.
Bukhari narrated it in "Menstruation" (313), from Abdullah bin Abdul-Wahhab, who said, Hammad bin Zayd told us, from Ayub, from Hafsa. Abu Abdullah said, or Hisham bin Hassan, from Hafsa, from Umm Atiya, and she mentioned the same.Muslim narrated it in "Funerals" (938) from the hadith of Ayub, from Muhammad bin Sirin, and from the hadith of Hisham, from Hafsa, both of them from Umm Atiya, limiting it to her saying, "We were forbidden from following funeral processions, but it was not made obligatory upon us."The second version is found in Bukhari (1279) through the route of Salama bin Alqama, from Muhammad bin Sirin, with his chain of transmission, in the same manner.