English translation
[3728] (1489) Humaid said: "I said to Zainab: 'What is this throwing a piece of dung at the end of one year?'[1] Zainab said: 'If a woman's husband died, she would go into a hut and wear her worst clothes, and she would not put on perfume or anything until one year had passed. Then an animal would be brought - a donkey or a sheep or a bird - she would rub her hands over it, and rarely did (such a woman) rub her hands over anything but it died. Then she would be given a piece of dung which she would throw, then she would go back to whatever she wanted to of perfume and other things.”