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ahmad:25949ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

"Wear white clothes for they are purer and better, and shroud your dead in them."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1897)  

أحمد:٢٥٩٤٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

كُفِّنَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ سُحُولِيَّةٍ بِيضٍ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Nasāʾī, Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah, Mālik, Aḥmad, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
bukhari:1271Abū Nuʿaym > Sufyān > Hishām > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

The Prophet ﷺ was shrouded in three pieces of cloth which were made of Suhul (a type of cotton), and neither a shirt nor a turban were used.  

البخاري:١٢٧١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

كُفِّنَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِي ثَلاَثَةِ أَثْوَابِ سَحُولَ كُرْسُفٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا قَمِيصٌ وَلاَ عِمَامَةٌ  

nasai:1897Isḥāq > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

"Wear white clothes for they are purer and better, and shroud your dead in them."'  

النسائي:١٨٩٧أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

كُفِّنَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِي ثَلاَثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ سُحُولِيَّةٍ بِيضٍ  

abudawud:3151Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Hishām from my father > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was shrouded in three garments of white Yemeni stuff, among which was neither a shirt nor a turban.  

أبو داود:٣١٥١حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ هِشَامٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي أَخْبَرَتْنِي عَائِشَةُ قَالَتْ

كُفِّنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي ثَلاَثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ يَمَانِيَةٍ بِيضٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا قَمِيصٌ وَلاَ عِمَامَةٌ  

ibnmajah:1470Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-ʿAsqalānī > ʿAmr b. Abū Salamah > Hadhā Mā > from Abū Muʿayd Ḥafṣ b. Ghaylān > Sulaymān b. Mūsá > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was shrouded in three thin white Suhuli cloths.”  

ابن ماجة:١٤٧٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَلَفٍ الْعَسْقَلاَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ قَالَ هَذَا مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ أَبِي مُعَيْدٍ حَفْصِ بْنِ غَيْلاَنَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

كُفِّنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي ثَلاَثِ رِيَاطٍ بِيضٍ سَحُولِيَّةٍ  

malik:16-6Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd

that the Prophet ﷺ that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was shrouded in three pure white cotton garments.  

مالك:١٦-٦وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كُفِّنَ فِي ثَلاَثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ بِيضٍ سَحُولِيَّةٍ  

ahmad:25601Yaḥyá > Hishām from my father > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was shrouded in three garments of white Yemeni stuff, among which was neither a shirt nor a turban. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3151)   

أحمد:٢٥٦٠١حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ هِشَامٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي قَالَ أَخْبَرَتْنِي عَائِشَةُ قَالَتْ

كُفِّنَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ يَمَانِيَةٍ بِيضٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا قَمِيصٌ وَلَا عِمَامَةٌ  

nasai-kubra:2035Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

"Wear white clothes for they are purer and better, and shroud your dead in them."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1897)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٠٣٥أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

«كُفِّنَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ سُحُولٍ بِيضٍ»