Zainab further said:\n \n\n"I heard my mother, Um Salama saying that a woman came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) \nand said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! The husband of my daughter has died and she is suffering from an eye \ndisease, can she apply kohl to her eye?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, "No," twice or thrice. (Every time she \nrepeated her question) he said, "No." Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) added, "It is just a matter of four months \nand ten days. In the Pre-Islamic Period of ignorance a widow among you should throw a globe of \ndung when one year has elapsed."\n

Zainab further said:\n \n\n"I heard my mother, Um Salama saying that a woman came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) \nand said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! The husband of my daughter has died and she is suffering from an eye \ndisease, can she apply kohl to her eye?" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, "No," twice or thrice. (Every time she \nrepeated her question) he said, "No." Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) added, "It is just a matter of four months \nand ten days. In the Pre-Islamic Period of ignorance a widow among you should throw a globe of \ndung when one year has elapsed."\n

\nقَالَتْ زَيْنَبُ وَسَمِعْتُ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ، تَقُولُ جَاءَتِ امْرَأَةٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ابْنَتِي تُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا وَقَدِ اشْتَكَتْ عَيْنَهَا أَفَتَكْحُلُهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ لاَ ‏"‏‏.‏ مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلاَثًا كُلَّ ذَلِكَ يَقُولُ لاَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ إِنَّمَا هِيَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرٌ، وَقَدْ كَانَتْ إِحْدَاكُنَّ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ تَرْمِي بِالْبَعَرَةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ الْحَوْلِ ‏"‏‏.‏