Zaynab said, "I heard my mother, Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, 'Messenger of Allah! My daughter's husband died, and her eyes are troubling her, can she put kohl on them?' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'No' two or three times. Then he said, 'It is only four months and ten days. In the Jahiliyya, none of you threw away the piece of dung until a year had passed.' "
Humayd ibn Nafi said, "I asked Zaynab to explain what 'throwing away the piece of dung at the end of a year' meant. Zaynab said, 'In the Jahiliyya when a woman's husband died, she went into a small tent and dressed in the worst of clothes. She did not touch perfume or anything until a year had passed. Then she was brought an animal - a donkey, a sheep, or a bird, and she would break her idda with it, by rubbing her body against it (taftaddu). Rarely did she break her idda with anything (by rubbing herself against it) but that it died. Then she would come out and would be given a piece of dung. She would throw it away and then return to whatever she wished of perfumes or whatever.' "
Malik explained, 'Taftaddu' means to wipe her skin with it in the same way as with a healing charm."
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 29, Hadith 103 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 1268 |
| Grade: | A Sahih hadith and its isnad is Hasan] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 705 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 138 |
| مُتَّفق عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3304 |
| In-book reference | : Book 13, Hadith 218 |
| Reference | : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 534 |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 44 |
| English translation | : Book 29, Hadith 534 |
| Reference | : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 905 |
| In-book reference | : Book 38, Hadith 18 |
| English translation | : Book 38, Hadith 905 |
| Reference | : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 914 |
| In-book reference | : Book 39, Hadith 8 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 914 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 45, Hadith 5503 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 58, Hadith 6103 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 48, Hadith 8713 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 28, Hadith 17435 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 13, Hadith 22931 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 13, Hadith 23085 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 31417 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 30, Hadith 32983 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 33, Hadith 33279 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 9, Hadith 10974 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 47, Hadith 6428 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 65, Hadith 10778 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 3, Hadith 6618 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 3, Hadith 6913 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 14, Hadith 14288 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 26, Hadith 4730 |
Another chain reports the same.
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، مِثْلَ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ فُضَيْلٍ عَنْ عُمَارَةَ
.| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 4333 |
| In-book reference | : Book 37, Hadith 234 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 37, Hadith 4333 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 17, Hadith 2429 |
| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 9, Hadith 43 |
| English translation | : Book 9, Hadith 1239 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 9, Hadith 1211 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 9, Hadith 1639 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 62, Hadith 6794 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 3, Hadith 3741 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 28, Hadith 16971 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 28, Hadith 17566 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 13, Hadith 22968 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 18, Hadith 25473 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 22, Hadith 29306 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 31439 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 31525 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 34, Hadith 34270 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 37, Hadith 35946 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 39, Hadith 37135 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 27, Hadith 4235 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 3, Hadith 7035 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 13, Hadith 14151 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 16, Hadith 3580 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 50, Hadith 6805 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 2497 |
| In-book reference | : Book 9, Hadith 265 |
| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 7, Hadith 75 |
| English translation | : Book 7, Hadith 844 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 7, Hadith 841 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 3, Hadith 1569 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 2, Hadith 56 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 22, Hadith 4424 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 42, Hadith 5259 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 58, Hadith 6104 |