believe in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for a deceased person for more than three days, except for a husband, for four months and ten days." There is no ihdad for a woman in a revocable divorce (raj'iyya) according to any consensus we know of; because she remains in the status of a wife, she is permitted to adorn herself for her husband and display her charms to him so that he may desire her and she may remain cherished by him, just as she does during the marriage bond. There is no ihdad for a woman married in an invalid marriage (nikah fasid); because she is not a wife in reality, nor is there anyone who was lawful to her and for whom she was lawful, such that she would grieve over his loss.
Section: A woman in mourning (hadda) must abstain from that which invites intercourse with her, encourages looking at her, or beautifies her. This comprises four things. The first is perfume, and there is no disagreement regarding its prohibition for those who consider ihdad mandatory, due to the saying of the Prophet, peace be upon him: "She shall not touch perfume except at the end of her purity, when she is purified from her menses with a small amount of qust (costus) or azfar (clove/aromatic nail)." This is agreed upon. Zaynab bint Umm Salama narrated, saying: I entered upon Umm Habiba, the wife of the Prophet, peace be upon him, when her father Abu Sufyan died. She called for a perfume containing a yellow dye, khaluq or otherwise, and she applied it to a slave girl. Then she touched it to her own cheek, and then said: By Allah, I have no need for perfume, except that I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, saying: "It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for a deceased person for more than three nights, except for...
(3) Its extraction was mentioned previously, on page 193. (4) In A: "nikahiha" (her marriage). (5) Qust, kust, and azfar: two types of incense. (6) Extracted by al-Bukhari in: The Chapter on Perfume for a Woman at Her Purification from Menses, from the Book of Menses; and in: The Chapter on the Mourning of a Woman Whose Husband Has Died for Four Months and Ten Days; and in: The Chapter on the Mourning Woman Wearing 'Asb (a type of Yemeni garment) Cloth, from the Book of Divorce. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/85, 7/76, 78. And by Muslim in: The Chapter on the Obligation of Ihdad during the Idda of Death..., from the Book of Divorce. Sahih Muslim 2/1127. It was also extracted by Abu Dawud in: The Chapter on What a Woman in Idda Must Avoid during Her Idda, from the Book of Divorce. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/537. And by al-Nasa'i in: The Chapter on What a Mourning Woman Must Avoid of Dyed Clothing, and The Chapter on Applying Henna (Khadab) for a Mourning Woman, from the Book of Divorce. Al-Mujtaba 6/168, 169. And by Ibn Majah in: The Chapter on Whether a Woman Mourns for Other than Her Husband, from the Book of Divorce. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/674, 675. And by al-Darimi in: The Chapter on the Prohibition of Adornment for a Woman, from the Book of Divorce 2/167, 168. And by Imam Ahmad in: Al-Musnad 5/85, 6/408. (7) Omitted from B.
