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Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 804 — The shroud

وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ : حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ ، عَنْ عُدَيْسَةَ بِنْتِ أُهْبَانَ بْنِ صَيْفِيٍّ ، قَالَتْ : جِئْتُ حِينَ حَضَرَ أَبِي الْوَفَاةُ ، فَقَالَ : لَا تُكَفِّنُونَنِي فِي قَمِيصٍ مَخِيطٍ . قَالُوا : لَا بُدَّ ، فَأَرْسَلْتُ إِلَى الْقَصَّارِ ، وَلِأَبِي قَمِيصٌ فِي الْقِصَارَةِ ، فَأُتِيَ بِهِ ، فَأُلْبِسَ ، وَذُهِبَ بِهِ ، فَأَغْلَقْتُ بَابِي وَاتَّبَعْتُهُ ، وَرَجَعْتُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِي ، فَوَجَدْتُ الْقَمِيصَ فِي الْبَيْتِ ، فَأَرْسَلْتُ إِلَى الَّذِينَ غَسَّلُوا أَبِي فَقُلْتُ : كَفَّنْتُمُوهُ فِي قَمِيصِهِ . قَالُوا : نَعَمْ ، قُلْتُ : هُوَ هَذَا ؟ قَالُوا : نَعَمْ .
804 \ 2 - أَخْرَجَهُ أَحْمَدُ مُخْتَصَرًا ، وَلَفْظُهُ : عَنِ ابْنَةِ أُهْبَانَ : أَنَّ أَبَاهَا أَمَرَ أَهْلَهُ أَنْ يُكَفِّنُوهُ وَلَا يُلْبِسُوهُ قَمِيصًا ، قَالَتْ : فَأَصْبَحْنَا وَالْقَمِيصُ عَلَى الْمِشْجَبِ .
It is narrated from Udaysah bint Uhban bin Sayfi that she said: I arrived when my father's death was approaching, and he left the instruction: "Do not shroud me in a stitched shirt." The family said: "That is unavoidable (that is, putting a shirt on him with the shroud is necessary)." So I sent someone to the washerman, because my father had a shirt there for washing; it was brought, and he was dressed in it, then he was carried away (for the funeral). I closed my door and followed the funeral, then when I returned to my house I found that same shirt inside the house. I sent for the people who had washed my father and asked them: "Did you shroud him in his shirt?" They replied: "Yes." I asked again: "Is it this shirt that is here?" They said: "Yes."
Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal recorded this hadith in abridged form, with these words: It is narrated from the daughter of Sayyiduna Uhban (may Allah be pleased with him) that her father had ordered his family to shroud him but not to dress him in a shirt. She said: When morning came, we saw that the shirt was on the clothes stand.
Hadith Reference المطالب العالية بزوائد المسانيد الثمانية / كتاب الجنائز / 804
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