A man washing his wife

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A man has more right than anyone to wash his wife.

Al-Hasan saw no harm in a man washing his wife.

Abd al-Rahman bin al-Aswad said: My mother-in-law or sister-in-law refused to wash my wife, so I washed her myself.

Hammad and al-Hasan said: Each of the spouses, husband and wife, may wash the other.

The same is narrated from al-Hasan; they both said: Each of the two (spouses) may wash the other.

Abu Salamah was asked about a woman who dies in the company of men and there is no woman there. He said: Her husband should wash her.

Al-Sha'bi said: When a woman dies, the marital bond between her and her husband comes to an end.

Al-Sha'bi said: A man may not wash his wife.

And this is the view of Sufyan.

Bishr bin Abdullah bin Yasar said: I heard Sulayman bin Musa saying: A man may wash his wife.

Masruq said: The wife of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away. He said: While she was alive, I was the one most entitled to her; but now you are more entitled to her.

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.