How Many Shrouds for a Woman

Muhammad says that a woman who menstruates should be shrouded in five or three garments.

Imam Shabi states that a woman will be shrouded in five garments: a shirt, a scarf, a sheet (chador), a waist wrapper or band, and a cloak (old cloth) which will be on her abdomen.

Hasan Irshad states that a woman will be shrouded in five garments: a shirt, a scarf, a waist-wrapper, and two sheets.

11413 - Waki‘ narrated to us (from Thawr) (1) from Rashid ibn Sa‘d from ‘Umar who said: A woman is shrouded in five [garments (2).

Ibrahim states that a woman will be shrouded in five garments: a loincloth, a shirt, a sheet, a scarf, and a wrapper in which she will be tied.

Hazrat Ibn Sirin states that a woman will be shrouded in five garments, and these five garments are: a shirt, a scarf, a sheet, an izar (lower garment), and a khirqa (outer garment).

Hazrat Suwaid states that both a woman and a man will be shrouded in two garments.

Ibrahim states that a woman will be shrouded in a shirt, a two-piece sheet, a lower garment, and a cloak.