ابن ماجہ · Hadith 2085

It was narrated from Humaid bin Nafay? that he heard Zainab the daughter of Umm Salamah narrating that she heard Umm Salamah and Umm Habibah mention that a woman caine to the Prophet and said that her daughter’s husband had died, and she was suffering from an eye disease, and she wanted to apply kohl to her eyes (as a remedy). The Messenger of Allah P.B.U.H said: “One of you would throw ashe-camel's dropping when a year had passed )Sinee the death of her husband). Rather it is four months and ten (days)." (Sahih)

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020