سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْمُتَوَفَّى عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا وَ هُوَ غَائِبٌ مَتَى تَعْتَدُّ فَقَالَ يَوْمَ يَبْلُغُهَا وَ ذَكَرَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ إِنَّ إِحْدَاكُنَّ كَانَتْ تَمْكُثُ الْحَوْلَ إِذَا تُوُفِّيَ زَوْجُهَا وَ هُوَ غَائِبٌ ثُمَّ تَرْمِي بِبَعْرَةٍ وَرَاءَهَا .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Abu Nasr, from Rafa’at who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the one widowed from her husband and he is absent, when should she observe her waiting period from?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The day it (news) reaches her’. And he<sup>asws</sup> mentioned that Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘One of you women used to remain waiting for a year when her husband died and he was absent, then she would throw her desires behind her back’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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