It was narrated from Zainab bint Umm Salamah -I (the narrator) said:
"From her mother?" He said: "Yes" - "that the Prophet was asked about a woman whose husband had died but they were worried about her eyes - could she use kohl?" He said: "One of you used to stay in her house wearing her shabbiest clothes for a year, then she would come out. No, (the mourning period is) four months and ten (days)."
Reference: Sunan an-Nasa'i 3501 In-book : Book 27, Hadith 113 English translation : Vol. 4, Book 27, Hadith 3531
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