Mishkat
al-Masabih

مشكاة المصابيح

05

Funerals

كتاب الجنائز

 

Chapter 4a: Washing and Shrouding the Dead - Section 1

باب غسل الميت وتكفينه - الفصل الأول

Mishkat al-Masabih 1635

'A’isha said that Allah's Messenger ﷺ was shrouded in three cotton garments of white Yemeni stuff from Sahul (This is said to have been cither the place where the cloth was woven, or the place from which it was exported), among which was neither a shirt nor a turban. (Bukharl and Muslim.)

وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كُفِّنَ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ يَمَانِيَّةٍ بِيضٍ سَحُولِيَّةٍ مِنْ كُرْسُفٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا قَمِيصٌ وَلَا عِمَامَة