Sahih Muslim Hadith 2173 – Washing The

English

[2173] 40 – ( … ) It was narrated that Umm 'Atiyyah said: "When Zainab, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah A, died, the Messenger of Allah said to us: 'Wash her an odd number of times, three or five, and put camphor – or a little camphor – in the fifth time. And when you have washed her, tell me." She said: "So we told him, and he gave us his waist-wrapper and said: 'Put it next to her body (i.e., wrap her in it)."