Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11901 — Reports on where to stand when a man

Amr bin Muhajir said: I prayed with Sayyiduna Wathilah bin al-Asqa' (may Allah be pleased with him) over sixty funerals of men and women in the time of the plague. They were all arranged in two rows: the row of the women in front of the men, the head of a woman's bier at the legs of her companion (woman), and the head of a man at the legs of his companion (man).