Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1195

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Al-Ansari narrated to us: Ma'n ibn Isa narrated to us: Malik ibn Anas informed us, from Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm, from Humayd ibn Nafi, from Zaynab bint Abi Salamah, who told him these three reports. Zaynab said: I visited Umm Habibah, the wife of the Prophet, when her father Abu Sufyan ibn Harb died. She called for perfume containing khaluq, a yellow fragrance, or something similar. She applied it to a young woman, then touched it to her own cheeks. She said: By Allah, I have no need for perfume, except that I heard the Messenger of Allah say: It is not lawful for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn a deceased person for more than three days, except for a husband, for whom the period is four months and ten days.