Concerning her mother? He said: Yes, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about a woman whose husband had died, and they feared for her eye: may she apply kohl? He said: "One of you used to remain in her house in her worst garments for a year, then she would go out—no, four months and ten days."

(1) Thus in the manuscript copies, and its context in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* (5664): "...in her worst garments for a year, and when a year had passed, she would throw a camel dropping, then go out..." and similarly in the sources of the hadith.

(2) Its chain is sound. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā: he is al-Ṣanʿānī, and Khālid: he is Ibn al-Ḥārith al-Hujaymī, and Umm Zaynab: she is Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. The hadith is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā*, no. 5664.

Aḥmad also transmitted it (26501) and (26652), al-Bukhārī (5338) and (5706), and Muslim (1486): (60) via multiple paths from Shuʿba, with this chain, and in their versions: "And when a year had passed and a dog passed by, she would throw a camel dropping—no, until four months and ten days had elapsed" (al-Bukhārī's wording).

Muslim also transmitted it (1486) following (60) via the path of Muʿādh al-ʿAnbarī, from Shuʿba, from Ḥumayd ibn Nāfiʿ, with both hadiths together: the hadith of Umm Salama concerning kohl, and the hadith of Umm Salama and another of the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, but he did not cite its wording.

It will also come via the path of Ayyūb ibn Mūsā under no. (3538), and via the path of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī under nos. (3539) and (3540), both from Ḥumayd ibn Nāfiʿ, with it.

And after it will come via the path of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, from Ḥumayd, from Zaynab, from Umm Salama and Umm Ḥabība, with it.

And it will come under no. (3533) via the path of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, from Ḥumayd, from Zaynab, from Umm Ḥabība, Zaynab bint Jaḥsh, and Umm Salama; and under no. (3504) via the path of Ṣafiyya bint Abī ʿUbayd, from one of the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, from Umm Salama; and under no. (3505) via the path of Ṣafiyya as well, from one of the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, namely Umm Salama. And see what precedes it.

Al-Sindī said: His saying "fī sharri aḥlāsihā"—with the fatḥa on the hamza, the plural of *ḥils*, with kasra on the ḥāʾ and sukūn on the lām—is a cloth that lies against the back of the camel, i.e., the worst of her garments, derived from the camel's *ḥils*. End quote.

And his saying "no, four months and ten days"—al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said in *Fatḥ al-Bārī* 10/158: The prohibited thing is implied, as if he said: "Then let her not apply kohl," then he said: "She remains for four months and ten days."