صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
كتاب الطلاق
The Book of Divorce
باب وُجُوبِ الإِحْدَادِ فِي عِدَّةِ الْوَفَاةِ وَتَحْرِيمِهِ فِي غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ إِلاَّ ثَلاَثَةَ أَيَّامٍ:
Chapter: The Obligation to mourn during the 'Iddah following the death of one's husband, but it is forbidden to mourn for more than three days in other cases
Hadith 1488
This hadith is listed as number 3727 in Maktaba Shamila
(حديث موقوف) قَالَت قَالَت زَيْنَبُ : سَمِعْتُ أُمِّي أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ ، تَقُولُ : جَاءَتِ امْرَأَةٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، فقَالَت : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ، إِنَّ ابْنَتِي تُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا ، وَقَدِ اشْتَكَتْ عَيْنُهَا ، أَفَنَكْحُلُهَا ؟ فقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " لَا " ، مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثًا ، كُلَّ ذَلِكَ يَقُولُ : " لَا " ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : " إِنَّمَا هِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرٌ وَقَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ تَرْمِي بِالْبَعْرَةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ الْحَوْلِ " ،
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 (ﷺ) 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 (ﷺ) 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.
