Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 254 – Volume 7, Book 63

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Volume 7, Book 63, Number 254:
Narrated Um 'Atiyya:
We were forbidden to mourn for more than three days for a dead person, except for a husband,
for whom a wife should mourn for four months and ten days (while in the mourning period) we
were not allowed to put kohl in our eyes, nor perfume our-selves, nor wear dyed clothes, except a
garment of 'Asb (special clothes made in Yemen). But it was permissible for us that when one of us
became clean from her menses and took a bath, she could use a piece of a certain kind of incense.
And it was forbidden for us to follow funeral processions.