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The Prophet (ﷺ) cursed the lady who practices tattooing and the one who gets herself tattooed, and one
who eats (takes) Riba’ (usury) and the one who gives it. And he prohibited taking the price of a dog,
and the money earned by prostitution, and cursed the makers of pictures.

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade taking the earnings of a slave girl by prostitution.

I said to Ibn `Umar, “If a man accuses his wife of illegal sexual intercourse (what is the judgment)?”
He said, “Allah’s Prophet separated the couple of Bani ‘Ajlan (when the husband accused his wife for
an illegal sexual intercourse). The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Allah knows that one of you two IS a liar; so will one
of you repent?’ But they refused. He then again said, ‘Allah knows that one of you two is a liar; so will
one of you repent?’ But they refused, whereupon he separated them by divorce.” Aiyub (a subnarrator)
said: `Amr bin Dinar said to me, “In the narration there is something which I do not see you
mentioning, i.e. the husband said, “What about my money (Mahr)?’ The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “You are not
entitled to take back money, for if you told the truth you have already entered upon her (and
consummated your marriage with her) and if you are a liar then you are less entitled to take it back.

(regarding the Verse): ‘If any of you dies and leaves wives behind,’ That was the period of the ‘Iddah
which the widow was obliged to spend in the house of the late husband. Then Allah revealed: And
those of you who die and leave wives should bequeath for their wives a year’s maintenance and
residence without turning them out, but if they leave, there is no blame on you for what they do of
themselves, provided it is honorable (i.e. lawful marriage) (2.240) Mujahid said: Allah has ordered
that a widow has the right to stay for seven months and twenty days with her husband’s relatives
through her husband’s will and testament so that she will complete the period of one year (of ‘Iddah).
But the widow has the right to stay that extra period or go out of her husband’s house as is indicated
by the statement of Allah: ‘But if they leave there is no blame on you,… ‘ (2.240) Ibn `Abbas said: The
above Verse has cancelled the order of spending the period of the ‘Iddah at her late husband’s house,
and so she could spend her period of the ‘Iddah wherever she likes. And Allah says: ‘Without turning
them out.’ ‘Ata said: If she would, she could spend her period of the ‘Iddah at her husband’s house, and
live there according to her (husband’s) will and testament, and if she would, she could go out (of her
husband’s house) as Allah says: ‘There is no blame on you for what they do of themselves.’ (2.240)
‘Ata added: Then the Verses of inheritance were revealed and the order of residence (for the widow)
was cancelled, and she could spend her period of the ‘Iddah wherever she would like, and she was no
longer entitled to be accommodated by her husband’s family.

When Um Habiba bint Abi Sufyan was informed of her father’s death, she asked for perfume and
rubbed it over her arms and said, “I am not in need of perfume, but I have heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying,
“It is not lawful for a lady who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for more than three days
except for her husband for whom the (mourning) period is four months and ten days.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) prohibited taking the price of a dog, the earnings of a soothsayer and the money earned
by prostitution.

We were forbidden to mourn for more than three days for a dead person, except for a husband, for
whom a wife should mourn for four months and ten days (while in the mourning period) we were not
allowed to put kohl in our eyes, nor perfume our-selves, nor wear dyed clothes, except a garment of
‘Asb (special clothes made in Yemen). But it was permissible for us that when one of us became clean
from her menses and took a bath, she could use a piece of a certain kind of incense. And it was
forbidden for us to follow funeral processions.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “It is not lawful for a lady who believes in Allah and the Last Day, to mourn for
more than three days for a dead person, except for her husband, in which case she should neither put
kohl in her eyes, nor perfume herself, nor wear dyed clothes, except a garment of ‘Asb”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “She should not use perfume except when she becomes clean from her
menses whereupon she can use Qust, and Azfar (two kinds of incense).

A woman was bereaved of her husband and her relatives worried about
her eyes (which were diseased). They came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), and
asked him to allow them to treat her eyes with kohl, but he said, “She
should not apply kohl to her eyes. (In the Pre-Islamic period of
Ignorance) a widowed woman among you would stay in the worst of her
clothes (or the worst part of her house) and when a year had elapsed,
if a dog passed by her, she would throw a globe of dung, Nay, (she
cannot use kohl) till four months and ten days have elapsed.”