Sunan ad-Darimi — Hadith #55115

Ubaid Allah bin Abdul Majeed told us, Malik told us, on the authority of Saad bin Ishaq bin Ka’b bin Ujrah, on the authority of his aunt Zainab bint Ka’b Ibn Ujrah: Al-Fura’i’ah bint Malik told her that she had asked the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to allow her to return. To its people, for my husband had gone out in search of a slave of his whom they had kept, and he overtook them and, just as he was about to arrive, they killed him, and the Messenger of God said: God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him: “Stay in your house until the appointed time has been fulfilled.” So I said: He has not left me in a house that I own, nor do I expense, and he said: “Stay until the letter has reached its term,” so she observed the waiting period for four months and ten days. She said: When Uthman was there: he sent for me So he asked me about that and I told him, so he followed that and decided upon it.