Sahih Muslim Hadith 3728 – The Obligation To

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[3728] (1489) Humaid said: "I 3ti (tM) [rVA] said to Zainab: 'What is this throwing a piece of dung at the end of one year? 11 Zainab said: JUi qj. Jl 'If a woman's husband died, she would go into a hut and wear her L worst clothes, and she would not put on perfume or anything until r [1J See IjadIth no. 3727. one year had passed. Then an animal would be brought – a donkey or a sheep or a bird – she would rub her hands over it, and rarely did (such a woman) rub her hands over anything but it died. Then she would be given a ; L piece of dung which she would throw, then she would go back to whatever she wanted to of perfume and other things."