Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Auf narrates that I was present in the gathering of Qasamah bin Zuhair, and in that gathering there were some elders who had witnessed the era of Hazrat Umar. A man said: A woman from Banu Amir bin Sa’sa’ah was my wife, and he praised her with goodness and said, when the dangerous plague spread, she too was afflicted with the disease of plague. When she was near death, she said, "I am a poor woman, and besides you, there is no one deserving or suitable for me." Then the woman passed away; I bathed her and buried her. Hazrat Auf narrates that none of those elders reproached him for this act, nor did they scold or rebuke him.