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.
Read More..Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to take a bath on account of sexual defilement, on Friday, for cupping and washing the dead.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who washes the dead should take a bath, and he who carries him should perform ablution.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Hurairah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. Abu Dawud said: This has been abrogated. When Ahmad bin Hanbal was asked about a man taking a bath after his washing the dead, I heard him say: Ablution is sufficient for him. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Abu Salih made a mention of the narrator Ishaq, the client of Zaidah between him and Abu Hurairah. He said: The tradition of Musab is weak. It contains many things that are not practised.
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