Shahih Bukhari - 4920

(Masih dari jalur periwayatan yang sama dengan hadits sebelumnya) [Zainab] berkata; Aku mendengar [Ummu Salamah] berkata; Seorang wanita pernah datang kepada Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam dan berkata, "Wahai Rasulullah, sesungguhnya anak perempuanku ditinggal mati oleh suaminya, sementara matanya juga terasa perih. Bolehkah ia bercelak?" Maka Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam menjawab: "Tidak." Beliau mengulanginya dua atau tiga kali. Kemudian Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Masa berkabungnya adalah empat bulan sepuluh hari. Sesungguhnya pada masa jahiliyah dulu, salah seorang dari kalian melempar kotoran setelah satu tahun." Humaid berkata; Aku bertanya kepada Zainab, "Apa maksud dari pernyataan bahwa, ia melempar kotoran setelah setahun?" Zainab menjawab, "Maksudnya, bila seorang wanita ditinggal mati oleh suaminya, ia masuk ke dalam gubuk, dan memakai pakaian yang paling lusuh miliknya. Ia tidak boleh menyentuh wewangian hingga berlalu satu tahun. Kemudian keledai, kambing atau sebangsa burung didatangkan kepada wanita itu agar ia mengusap kulitnya. Dan amat jarang ia mengusap suatu pun kecuali sesuatu itu akan mati. Setelah itu, ia keluar lalu diberi kotoran hewan dan ia lemparkan, setelah itu ia bebas menyentuh kembali sekehendaknya berupa wewangian atau pun yang lainnya." Malik ditanya, "Apa makna Tanfadldlu bihi?" Ia menjawab, "Yaitu, mengusap kulitnya dengannya." (HR. Bukhari: 4920)

Narrated Humaid bin Nafiʿ: Zainab further said, "I heard my mother, Umm Salama saying that a woman came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! The husband of my daughter has died and she is suffering from an eye disease, can she apply kohl to her eye?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, "No," twice or thrice. (Every time she repeated her question) he said, "No." Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) added, "It is just a matter of four months and ten days. In the Pre-Islamic Period of ignorance a widow among you should throw a globe of dung when one year has elapsed." I said to Zainab, "What does 'throwing a globe of dung when one year had elapsed' mean?" Zainab said, "When a lady was bereaved of her husband, she would live in a wretched small room and put on the worst clothes she had and would not touch any scent till one year had elapsed. Then she would bring an animal, e.g. a donkey, a sheep or a bird and rub her body against it. The animal against which she would rub her body would scarcely survive. Only then she would come out of her room, whereupon she would be given a globe of dung which she would throw away and then she would use the scent she liked or the like." (Bukhari: 4920)