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Zainab said: I heard Umm Salamah say: A woman came to the Messenger of Allah and said: O Messenger of Allah; my daughter husband has died and she has a problem in her eye; can I put kohl on her? The Messenger of Allah said: No. Then he said: It is four months and ten days. During the Aljahiliyah one of you would throw a piece of dung at the end of the year. Humaid said: I said to Zainab: What is this throwing a piece of dung at the end of the year? She said: If a woman husband died; she would enter a small room Hifsh and wear her worst clothes; and she would not put on perfume or anything until a year. Then an animal would be brought; a donkey or sheep or bird; and she would end her Iddah with it clean herself with it ; and usually any animal used for that purpose would die. Then she would come out and would be given a piece of dung which she would throw; then she would go back to whatever she wanted of perfume; etc. In the narration of Muhammad bin Salamah Malik said: Hifsh means hut.