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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