Hadith Number 1489

Humaid said : I said to Zainab : What is this throwing of dung until a year is passed ? Zainab said : When the husband of a woman died , she went into a hut and put on her worst clothes , and did not apply perfume or something like it until a year was over. Then an animal like a donkey , or a goat , or a bird was brought to her and she rubbed her hand over it , and it so happened that one on which she rubbed her hand died. She then came out of her house and she was given dung and she threw it and then she made use of anything like perfume or something else as she liked.