Reports on whether a nail or the like is taken from the deceased when washed, and what is done with it

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) disliked that anything be taken from the pubic hair or the nails after death, and he used to say: When the illness of a sick person becomes severe, his family should do this.

Al-Hasan said: The nails of the deceased are to be trimmed.

Shu'bah said: I mentioned this to Hammad, and he rejected it and said: "What do you think: if he were uncircumcised, would he then be circumcised?"

Abu Qilabah said: Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) was washing a deceased person; he asked for a razor and shaved him.

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) used to like that, when the illness of a sick person became severe, his moustache, nails and pubic hair be trimmed; and if he died, nothing would be taken from him.

When Bakr saw that the nails or hair of a deceased person had grown unusually long, he would trim them.

Abu al-Aliyah al-Qaysi said: Abu al-Malih al-Hudhali left me the instruction that when he died, his nails and hair should be trimmed.

Abu Qilabah said: Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) was washing a deceased person; he asked for a razor and shaved the deceased.