Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, "Walking behind the bier is in contradiction to the sunna."
Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 12
← Previous Hadith Yahya related to me from Malik that Hisham ibn Urwa said, "I only ever saw my father in front of a funeral procession." He added, "Then he would come to al-Baqi and sit down until the procession passed him."

Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 11 Next Hadith → Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that Asma bint Abi Bakr said to her family, "Perfume my clothes with incense when I die and then embalm me. Do not put any of the embalming substance on my shroud, and do not follow me with a burning torch."

Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 13