Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11306 — A man washing his wife

Awf said: I was in a gathering of Qasamah bin Zuhayr, and in that gathering there were also some elders who had lived in the time of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). A man said: A woman of Banu Amir bin Sa'sa'ah was my wife, and that man praised her with good words (spoke well of her), and he said: When the devastating plague spread, she too was struck by the plague. When she was close to death, she said: I am a woman far from my people, so no one but you has the right to attend to me or is fit for it. Then that woman died, and I washed her and buried her. Awf said: Not one of those elders reproached him for this act, nor rebuked him.