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It was narrated from Zainab bint Abi Salamah; from Umm Salamah that a woman from the Quraish came to the Messenger of Allah and said: My daughter husband has died; and I am worried about her eyes; she needs kohl. He said: One of you used to throw a piece of dung after a year had passed. Rather it the mourning period is four months and ten days. I the narrator said to Zainab: What does after a year had passed mean? She said: During the Aljahiliyah; if a woman husband died she would go to the worst room she had and stay there; then; when a year had passed; she would come out and throw a piece of dung behind her.