English translation
5334. Zainab said: I went to Umm Habība, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ when her father, Abū Sufyān bin Harb had died. Umm Habība asked for a perfume which contained yellow scent (Khalīq) or some other scent, and she first perfumed one of the girls with it and then rubbed her cheeks with it and said, “By Allāh, I am not in need of perfume, but I have heard Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ saying, ‘It is not lawful for a lady who believes in Allāh and the Last Day to mourn for a dead person for more than three days unless he is her husband for whom she should mourn for four months and ten days’.”