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.

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.