When the brother of Sayyidatuna Zaynab رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهَا (daughter of Jahsh) passed away, she got the fragrance brought to her on the fourth day and applied and said: I did not need the fragrance, but I heard the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم saying on the blessed pulpit, ‘It is not permissible for any Muslim woman to observe mourning for more than three days except for her husband that is four months and ten days.’

(Sunan Abi Dawood, vol. 2, pp. 422, Hadees 2299)

Similarly, when the father (Sayyiduna Abu Sufyan رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ) of Sayyidatuna Umm-e-Habibah رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهَا passed away, she رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهَا applied fragrance to her cheeks and said, ‘I did not need it, I did it only in obedience to the blessed command of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.’

(Sunan Abi Dawood, vol. 2, pp. 422, Hadees 2299)

Keeping in mortuary (cold storage)

On someone’s death, one of the practice of non-Shar’i acts that is becoming common is to wait for the sons etc., of the deceased who are out of the city or country by thinking that how the funeral will be held if he does not attend it. Though, at that time, other sons, daughters, sisters and brothers are all around the deceased. The son, who is coming from other city or country, gets very late due to getting no leaves or delay of transport etc. Under these conditions, the torture that is inflicted upon the poor deceased is not hidden from anyone.

This method is adopted to preserve the dead body of the helpless deceased from decomposition. The dead body is kept in a morgue having cold storage in which it freezes, causing severe pain to the deceased. Just ponder, when he was alive and had any trouble, all the family members would become restless. Due to his illness, they would spend the whole night sitting at his head side awake. If a thorn would prick him, they would feel his pain, but after his death all his love is forgotten and the family members agree to keep this miserable person (his dead body) in a cold storage morgue.