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How to shroud a dead body.

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Darussalam · Volume 2

23 - THE BOOK OF FUNERALS[AL-JANÁ'IZ]

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الحديث: 1261 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 75

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1261. Narrated Ibn Sirín: Umm 'Aṭīyya [an Anṣārī woman who gave the Bai'ah (pledge) to the Prophet ﷺ] came to Baṣrah to visit her son, but she could not find him. She narrated to us, “The Prophet ﷺ came to us while we were giving bath to his (dead) daughter, he said, ‘Wash her three times, five times or more, if you think it necessary, with water and Sīdr (Nabīq — lote-tree leaves), and last of all put camphor, and when you finish, notify me.’” Umm 'Aṭīyya added, “After finishing, we informed him and he gave us his waist-sheet and told us to shroud her in it and did not say more than that.”

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1261 - حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، أَنَّ أَيُّوبَ، أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ سِيرِينَ، يَقُولُ: جَاءَتْ أُمُّ عَطِيَّةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا، امْرَأَةٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ مِنَ اللَّاتِي بَايَعْنَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَدِمَتِ البَصْرَةَ تُبَادِرُ ابْنًا لَهَا، فَلَمْ تُدْرِكْهُ، فَحَدَّثَتْنَا، قَالَتْ: دَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَنَحْنُ نَغْسِلُ ابْنَتَهُ، فَقَالَ: «اغْسِلْنَهَا ثَلاَثًا، أَوْ خَمْسًا، أَوْ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، إِنْ رَأَيْتُنَّ ذَلِكَ بِمَاءٍ وَسِدْرٍ، وَاجْعَلْنَ فِي الآخِرَةِ كَافُورًا، فَإِذَا فَرَغْتُنَّ فَآذِنَّنِي» قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا فَرَغْنَا أَلْقَى إِلَيْنَا حِقْوَهُ، فَقَالَ: «أَشْعِرْنَهَا إِيَّاهُ» وَلَمْ يَزِدْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، وَلاَ أَدْرِي أَيُّ بَنَاتِهِ، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّ الإِشْعَارَ: الفُفْنَهَا فِيهِ، وَكَذَلِكَ كَانَ ابْنُ سِيرِينَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْمَرْأَةِ أَنْ تُشْعَرَ، وَلاَ تُؤْزَرَ

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