Does the woman in the waiting period leave her home for the days of condolence?

Question : Be patient, Salim. He says: This is the mother of Anas, a woman whose husband has passed away. She is in her father’s house and wants to leave her father’s house to go to her husband’s family’s house so that she can be present during the days of condolence that are customary among the general public. Is she permitted to do so?

Answer : It is not permissible for a woman to leave the house in which her husband died, whether it is her father’s house or her husband’s house. If she was visiting her father when her husband died, she must return to the house she was living in, because her presence at her father’s house was temporary, so she returns to the original house.