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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Humayd ibn
Abdar-Rahman ibn Awf that Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As said, "A dead man
is clothed in a shirt and a waist-wrapper and then wrapped in a third,
and if he only has one garment he is shrouded in that."
Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 8
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Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said that he
had heard that when Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was ill he asked A'isha, "How
many shrouds did the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, have?" and she replied, "Three pure white cotton garments."
Abu Bakr said, "Take this garment (a garment he was wearing on which
red clay or saffron had fallen) and wash it. Then shroud me in it with
two other garments." A'isha said, "Why's that?", and Abu Bakr replied,
"The living have greater need of the new than the dead. This is only
for the body fluids that come out as the body decays."
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and Abu Bakr and
Umar as well as the khalifas up until this time and Abdullah ibn Umar,
would walk in front of the bier.