Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: Do not be extravagant in shrouding, for I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: Do not be extravagant in shrouding, for it will be quickly decayed.
Read More..Narrated Khabbab: Musab bin Umari was killed on the day of Uhud. He had only a striped cloak. When we covered his head with it, his feet appeared, and when we covered his feet, his head appeared. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Cover his head with it, and cover his feet with some grass.
Read More..Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The best shroud is a lower garment and one which covers the whole body, and the best sacrifice is a horned ram.
Read More..Narrated Layla daughter of Qa'if ath-Thaqafiyyah: I was one of those who washed Umm Kulthum, daughter of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, when she died. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم first gave us lower garment, then shirt, then head-wear, then cloak (which covers the whole body), and then she was shrouded in another garment. She said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was sitting at the door, and he had shroud with him. He gave us the garments one by one.
Read More..Narrated Abu Saeed Al Khudri: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: The best of your perfumes is musk.
Read More..Narrated Al-Husayn ibn Wahwah: Talhah ibn al-Bara fell ill and the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came to pay him a sick-visit. He said: I think Talhah has died; so tell me (about his death), and make haste, for it is not advisable that the corpse of a Muslim should remain withheld among his family.
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