A woman came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, "Messenger of Allah, my daughter's husband has died, and her eyes are troubling her. May she apply kohl to them?"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "No." She asked two or three times, and each time he said, "No."Then he said, "It is only 'four months and ten days' [Baqarah 2:234]. In the days of ignorance one of you would wait a full year and then throw away a piece of camel dung."Humayd bin Nafi said, "I asked Zaynab, 'What does throwing away a piece of camel dung at the end of the year mean?'"Zaynab explained, "When a woman's husband died, she would go into a tiny hut, put on her worst clothes, and touch no perfume or anything else until a year had passed. Then some animal would be brought to her, a donkey, a sheep, or a bird, and she would rub herself against it to end her mourning. Rarely did she rub against anything without it dying. Then she would come out and be given a piece of camel dung, which she would throw away, and after that she could return to whatever she wished of perfume or anything else."
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جاءت امرأة إلى رسول الله ﷺ فقالت يا رسول الله إن ابنتي توفي عنها زوجها وقد اشتكت عينيها أفتكحلهما فقال رسول الله ﷺ لا مرتين أو ثلاثا كل ذلك يقول لا ثم قال إنما هي {أربعة أشهر وعشرا} وقد كانت إحداكن في الجاهلية ترمي بالبعرة على رأس الحول قال حميد بن نافع 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 طير فتفتض به فقلما تفتض بشيء إلا مات ثم تخرج فتعطى بعرة فترمي بها ثم تراجع بعد ما شاءت من طيب أو غيره