جَاءَتِ امْرَأَةٌ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) تَسْتَفْتِيهِ فِي الْمَبِيتِ فِي غَيْرِ بَيْتِهَا وَ قَدْ مَاتَ زَوْجُهَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَهْلَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ كَانَ إِذَا مَاتَ زَوْجُ الْمَرْأَةِ أَحَدَّتْ عَلَيْهِ امْرَأَتُهُ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ شَهْراً فَلَمَّا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) رَحِمَ ضَعْفَهُنَّ فَجَعَلَ عِدَّتَهُنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَ عَشْراً وَ أَنْتُنَّ لَا تَصْبِرْنَ عَلَى هَذَا .
Translation
Humeyd, from Ibn Sama’at, from Muhammad Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Ayoub, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘A woman who came over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> to seek a verdict regarding the spending of a night in other than her own house, and her husband had died. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘In the Pre-Islamic period, when a husband of a woman died, his wife would mourn over him for twelve months. So when Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Sent Muhammad<sup>saww</sup>, was Merciful on their weak ones, so He<sup>azwj</sup> Made their waiting period being of four months and ten (days), and you all are not being patient upon this?’
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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