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2300. It was reported from Zainab bint Ka'b bin 'Ujrah, that Al-Furai'ah bint Mālik bin Sinān — the sister of Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī — narrated that she went to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ in order to seek his permission to go to her family's house in Banū Khudrah. And that was because her husband had gone out in order to find some slaves of his that had run away, but when he reached the beginning of Al-Qadūm, they (slaves) caught up with him and killed him. She said: “So I asked the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ about returning to my family since I had no house that I owned, nor any sustenance. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said, ‘Yes,’ so I left, until I was at his house, or at the Masjid, when he called me, or called for me. I went back to him, and he said: ‘What did you say?’ So I repeated the story of what happened to my husband. He said: ‘Remain in your house until the appointed time finishes.’ So I stayed there for the waiting period of four months and ten days. Then, during the (rule) of ‘Uthmān bin ‘Affān, he called me and asked me
about that. I informed him, and he followed it and judged by it.”(Sahih)
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It is obligatory upon a widow to spend her Iddah period in the same house where her husband died, except in abnormal circumstances making it impossible for her to live there.
