Embalming perfume (hanut): how it is prepared and where it is applied

Hakim bin Jabir said: When Ibn Qays died, Sayyiduna al-Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When you have washed him, do not hasten to bury him until you call me. Then we called him, and he came and performed ablution on him with perfume (he applied perfume to the places of ablution).

When the perfuming of the dead was mentioned before Salim and Ubaydullah bin Abdullah, they said: The perfume is to be placed between the body of the deceased and his clothes.

Ibrahim said: The clothes (shroud) of the deceased are to be fumigated with incense, and perfume is to be applied to the places of prostration.

Concerning perfuming the deceased, Ibrahim said: One should begin with the places of prostration.

Ibrahim said: When they have finished washing him, perfume is then to be applied to the deceased's places of prostration.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Camphor (perfume) is to be applied to the places of prostration of the deceased.