Volume 2, Book 23, Number 370:
Narrated Zainab bint Abi Salama:
When the news of the death of Abu Sufyan reached from Sham, Um Habiba on the third day,
asked for a yellow perfume and scented her cheeks and forearms and said, “No doubt, I would not
have been in need of this, had I not heard the Prophet saying: “It is not legal for a woman who be –
lieves in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for more than three days for any dead person except her
husband, for whom she should mourn for four months and ten days.”
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 2 > BOOK 23: FUNERALS (AL-JANAA’IZ)
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 371:
Narrated Zainab bint Abi Salama:
I went to Um Habiba, the wife of Prophet, who said, “I heard the Prophets saying, ‘It is not legal for
a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for any dead person for more than three
days except for her husband, (for whom she should mourn) for four months and ten days’.” Later I
went to Zainab bint Jahsh when her brother died; she asked for some scent, and after using it she
said, “I am not in need of scent but I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘It is not legal for a woman who be –
lieves in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for more than three days for any dead person except her
husband, (for whom she should mourn) for four months and ten days.’ “
Volume 1, Book 6, Number 319:
Narrated Zainab bint Abi Salama:
Um-Salama said, “I got my menses while I was lying with the Prophet under a woolen sheet. So I
slipped away, took the clothes for menses and put them on. Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Have you got your
menses?’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ Then he called me and took me with him under the woolen sheet.” Um
Salama further said, “The Prophet used to kiss me while he was fasting. The Prophet and I used to
take the bath of Janaba from a single pot.”
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 1 > BOOK 6: MENSTRUAL PERIODS