black; except for the three days, and this is the choice of Imām Ibn Jarīr, who said—may Allāh have mercy on him: "it does not indicate that there is no mourning for the woman, but rather it indicates the Prophet's command to her to mourn for three days, then to act according to what appears to her by wearing whatever garments she wishes that are permissible for a woman in mourning to wear; those that are neither adornment nor fragrant; because there may be garments that are neither adornment nor mourning clothes, such as those which the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) permitted the widow to wear from the garments of ʿaṣb and the Yemeni cloaks; for these are neither adornment clothes nor mourning clothes." I said: This is knowledge, fiqh, and the reconciliation between the ḥadīths, so hold onto it with your molars. And Allāh is the guide, there is no Lord but Him. (Note): Among the most astonishing and strange distortions I have encountered in my scholarly life—and I have entered my eighties—is what happened to this ḥadīth in the word (tasallabī): it appeared in "al-Mawārid" (745) as "sallamī" and likewise in its original "Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān" (3138 - Dār al-Kutub - Beirut)! And in the Dār al-Muʾassasah edition (3148) as "tasallamī," and similarly in "Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd" (8/282)! And in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī," and "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr": "taskunī"! And in "Sunan al-Bayhaqī": "taslubnī," and in "al-Maʿrifah": "lā tasalnī" without the existing bāʾ, but I think it is a typographical error; because the commentator indicated that the difference between al-Bayhaqī's two books "al-Sunan" and "al-Āthār" is only the addition of the negative particle (lā), and he said: "Thus it is in the manuscript," meaning that it contains: "lā taslubnī"! The ḥāfiẓ—may Allāh have mercy on him—pointed out in "al-Fatḥ" (9/448) the error of Ibn Ḥibbān, and he asserted that the correct version is what I have established above. Then he said: