Zainab (bint Abu Salama) (Allah be pleased with her) reported: I went to Umm Habiba, the wife of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , when her father Abu Sufyan (RA) had died. Umm Habiba sent for a perfume having yellowness in it or something else like it, and she applied it to a girl and then rubbed it on her cheeks and then said: By Allah, I need no perfume but for the fact that I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) say on the pulpit: "It is not permissible for a woman believing in Allah and the Hereafter to mourn for the dead beyond three days, but (in case of the death) of the husband it is permissible for four months and ten days." Zainab said: I then visited Zainab bint Jahsh (Allah be pleased with her) when her brother died and she sent for perfume and applied it and then said: By Allah, I don't feel any need for the perfume but that I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) say on the pulpit: "It is not permissible for a woman believing in Allah and the Hereafter to mourn the dead beyond three days except in case of her husband (for whom she can mourn) for four months and ten days."

." Zainab said: I then visited Zainab bint Jahsh (Allah be pleased with her) when her brother died and she sent for perfume and applied it and then said: By Allah, I don't feel any need for the perfume but that I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) say on the pulpit: "It is not permissible for a woman believing in Allah and the Hereafter to mourn the dead beyond three days except in case of her husband (for whom she can mourn) for four months and ten days.

Zainab (Allah be pleased with her) said: I heard my mother Umm Salamah (Allah be pleased with her) as saying: A woman came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and said: Allah's Messenger. I have a daughter whose husband has died and there has developed some trouble in her eye; should we apply collyrium to it? Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: No (repeating it twice or thrice, saying only, NO" all the time). Then he said: It is only four months and ten days, whereas in the preIslamic period none of you threw away the dung until one year had passed.

Humaid said: I said to Zainab: What is this throwing of dung until a year is passed? Zainab said: When the husband of a woman died, she went into a hut and put on her worst clothes, and did not apply perfume or something like it until a year was over. Then an animal like a donkey, or a goat, or a bird was brought to her and she rubbed her hand over it, and it so happened that one on which she rubbed her hand died. She then came out of her house and she was given dung and she threw it and then she made use of anything like perfume or something else as she liked.

Zainab bint Umm Salamah (Allah be pleased with her) reported that a relative of Umm Habiba (Allah be pleased with her) died. She sent for a yellow (perfume) and applied that to her forearm and said: I am doing it, for I have heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) saying: It is not permissible for a woman believing in Allah and the Hereafter to mourn beyond three days except the husband (for whom she can mourn) for four months and ten days.

This hadith was narrated by Zainab from her mother and from Zainab, the wife of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , or from some other lady from among the wives of the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) .

Zainab bint Umm Salamah (Allah be pleased with her) reported on the authority of her mother that a woman lost her husband. As her eyes were ailing, they (her kith and kin) entertained fear about her eyes, so they came to Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and sought permission for the use of collyrium, whereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: One among you used to spend one year in a dungeon dressed in worst clothes. And at the end of this period she threw dung at the dog which happened to pass that way and then she came out (of her 'Idda). Can't she (wait) even for four months and ten days?

Humaid bin Nafi' narrated two traditions from Umm Salamah dealing with collyrium and the other hadith from the wives of Allah's Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) except with this that no mention was made of Zainab.

Zainab bint Abu Salama reported: Umm Salamah and Umm Habiba (RA) were talking with each other (and saying) that a woman came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and mentioned to him that her daughter had lost her husband, and her eyes were sore and she wanted to use collyrium, whereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: One among you used to throw dung at the end of a year, and now (this abstinence from adornment) is only for four months and ten days.

Zainab bint Abu Salama reported that when the news of the death of Abu Safyan came to Umm Habiba she sent for yellow (perfume) on the third day and rubbed it on her forearms and on her cheeks and said: I had in fact no need of it, but I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: It is not permissible for the women believing in Allah and the Hereafter to abstain from adornment beyond three days except (at the death of) husband (in which case she must abstain from adornment) for four months and ten days.