Muwatta Malik
Book 29, Hadith 93
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ، وَسُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ يَسَارٍ، كَانَا يَقُولاَنِ عِدَّةُ الأَمَةِ إِذَا هَلَكَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا شَهْرَانِ وَخَمْسُ لَيَالٍ .
Translation
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Said ibnal-Musayyab and Sulayman ibn Yasar said, "The idda of a slave-girlwhen her husband dies is two months and five days."