Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11433 — A woman: how her head is covered

Hisham said: I asked Umm al-Humayd bint Sirin: "Did you see how Hafsah, when she washed (a deceased woman), dealt with the woman's head-covering?" She said: "Yes. She would put the head-covering on her the way it is put on a living woman, then about a cubit of the head-covering would be left over, which she would spread out behind her; then she would fold that leftover part back and cover her face with it."