Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32706 — Reports on talk about rulers

Ibn Abi Mulaykah said: I went to Sayyidah Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) after the killing of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him). She began saying: "News has reached me that they have crucified Abdullah upside down and have hung a cat along with him. By Allah, I wish that before my death his body would be given to me, so that I may wash him, perfume him, shroud him and bury him." Only a short while later a letter came from Abd al-Malik saying that his body should be handed over to his family. So he was brought to Sayyidah Asma, and she washed him, perfumed him, shrouded him and buried him.