وَ هَلْ يَجُوزُ لَهَا وَ هِيَ فِي عِدَّتِهَا أَنْ تَزُورَ قَبْرَ زَوْجِهَا أَمْ لَا ‘And is it allowed for her, while she is in her waiting period, that she visits the grave of her husband or not?’ التَّوْقِيعُ تَزُورُ قَبْرَ زَوْجِهَا وَ لَا تَبِيتُ عَنْ بَيْتِهَا The letter: ‘She can visit the grave of her husband and not spend the night away from her house’.
وَ هَلْ يَجُوزُ لَهَا أَنْ تَخْرُجَ فِي قَضَاءِ حَقٍّ يَلْزَمُهَا أَمْ لَا تَبْرَحُ مِنْ بَيْتِهَا وَ هِيَ فِي عِدَّتِهَا And is it allowed for her that she goes out regarding a right necessitating her or not, departing from her house while she is in her waiting period?’ التَّوْقِيعُ إِذَا كَانَ حَقٌّ خَرَجَتْ وَ قَضَتْهُ وَ إِذَا كَانَتْ لَهَا حَاجَةٌ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهَا مَنْ يَنْظُرُ فِيهَا خَرَجَتْ لَهَا حَتَّى تَقْضِيَ وَ لَا تَبِيتُ عَنْ مَنْزِلِهَا.
The letter: When it was a right, she can go out and fulfil it, and it was a need for her, and there does not happen to be anyone who can look into it for her, she can go out for it until she fulfils but she should not spend the night away from her house’’.
[1] Introduction: Some Ahadith are presented here related to role of women in funerals, our detailed article on death and burial can be read for other aspects: http://hubeali.com/articles/AlKafan_September2015.pdf We start with two background Ahadith that burial must not be delayed unless there is a compulsion.
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Salim, from Ahmad bin Al Nazar, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘O group of people! He should not delay, a man from whom there is a deceased, so that he waits with him for the morning, nor a man for whom there is a deceased by the day so he await with him for the night; and do not wait with your dead ones for the emergence of the sun, nor for its setting.