Reports on where to stand when a man and a woman are together

Sa'id bin Jubayr said: When there is the funeral of a man and a woman together, the head of the woman (her body) is placed at the man's shoulders; then the imam will stand at the woman's head and at the middle (the chest) of the man.

Amr bin Muhajir said: I prayed with Sayyiduna Wathilah bin al-Asqa' (may Allah be pleased with him) over sixty funerals of men and women in the time of the plague. They were all arranged in two rows: the row of the women in front of the men, the head of a woman's bier at the legs of her companion (woman), and the head of a man at the legs of his companion (man).

Habib bin Abi Thabit said: Sa'id bin Jubayr came to the people of Makkah, and they used to pray the funeral prayer over a man and a woman placing them level (their heads and their legs). Sa'id bin Jubayr told them to place the woman's head at the middle of the man.

Ibrahim was asked: If in one funeral there are several men and women, what should be done? He said: Their heads should be made level, and they will be in one row between the imam and the qiblah.

Al-Sha'bi also states the same as Ibrahim.

Dawud said: I heard the same from Sa'id bin al-Musayyib.

Sulayman bin Musa said: Sayyiduna Wathilah bin al-Asqa' (may Allah be pleased with him) used to place the heads of the men at the knees of the women.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: The man's head will be given precedence. (The man's head will be placed forward.)