Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi and Zayd ibn Aslam fromSulayman ibn Yasar that al-Ahwas died in Syria when his wife had begunher third menstrual period after he had divorced her. Muawiya ibn AbiSufyan wrote and asked Zayd ibn Thabit about that. Zayd wrote to him,"When she began her third period, she was free from him and he wasfree from her, and he does not inherit from her nor she from him."
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 29, Hadith 56
Arabic reference: Book 29, Hadith 1217