Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Abu Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that I, Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), and Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with them both) were in a gathering. A discussion took place among us regarding the ruling on the waiting period (‘iddah) if a woman's husband passes away and she gives birth to a child shortly after her husband's death. I said that her ‘iddah will be completed. Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that her ‘iddah will be whichever is longer between childbirth and four months and ten days. Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that I am with my brother Abu Salamah on this matter. Then he sent Hazrat Ibn Abbas’s (may Allah be pleased with them both) servant Kuraib to Hazrat Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her). Hazrat Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) decided on this issue, saying that Sabi’ah Aslamiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) gave birth to a child forty days after her husband’s death. After the birth of the child, a man from Banu Abd al-Dar, whose kunyah was Abu Sanabil, sent a marriage proposal to Sabi’ah Aslamiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) and told her that her ‘iddah had been completed. When Sabi’ah intended to marry someone else, Abu Sanabil said that your ‘iddah has not been completed. Sabi’ah mentioned this to the Prophet (ﷺ), and he permitted her to marry.