[Machine] Abu Bakr passed away on the night of Tuesday, the eighth of Jumada al-Akhirah in the year thirteen. He instructed that Asma bint Umays, his wife, should wash him, but she was weak, so she sought the help of Abdur Rahman. This narration is connected, although its narrator, Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi, the author of the history and campaigns, is not strong, and he has contradictory evidence from Ibn Abi Mulaikah and Ata ibn Abi Rabah about Saad ibn Ibrahim mentioning that Asma bint Umays washed her husband, Abu Bakr. Some of them mentioned that Abu Bakr instructed it.  

تُوُفِّيَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ لَيْلَةَ الثُّلَاثَاءِ لِثَمَانٍ بَقِينَ مِنْ جُمَادَى الْآخِرَةِ سَنَةَ ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ وَأَوْصَى أَنْ تُغَسِّلَهُ أَسْمَاءُ بِنْتُ عُمَيْسٍ امْرَأَتُهُ وَأَنَّهَا ضَعُفَتْ فَاسْتَعَانَتْ بِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ الْمَوْصُولُ وَإِنْ كَانَ رَاوِيَهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَاقِدِيُّ صَاحِبُ التَّارِيخِ وَالْمَغَازِي فَلَيْسَ بِالْقَوِيِّ وَلَهُ شَوَاهِدُ مَرَاسِيلُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ وَعَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَنَّ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتَ عُمَيْسٍ غَسَّلَتْ زَوْجَهَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؓ وَذَكَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؓ أَوْصَى بِذَلِكَ  

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "May Allah have mercy on a man whose wife washes him and shrouds him in her character." She said, "This was done to Abu Bakr, his wife Asma bint 'Umays Al-Ashja'iyyah washed him and shrouded him in the clothes that he used to wear." This is a weak chain of narration.  

رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ رَحِمَ اللهُ امْرَأً غَسَّلَتْهُ امْرَأَتُهُ وَكُفِّنَ فِي أَخْلَاقِهِ قَالَتْ فَفُعِلَ ذَلِكَ بِأَبِي بَكْرٍ غَسَّلَتْهُ امْرَأَتُهُ أَسْمَاءُ بِنْتُ عُمَيْسٍ الْأَشْجَعِيَّةُ وَكُفِّنَ فِي ثِيَابِهِ الَّتِي كَانَ يَبْتَذِلُهَا هَذَا إِسْنَادٌ ضَعِيفٌ  

[Machine] "If I had received the command, I would not have understood what the Prophet ﷺ washed other than his wives. The scholar, may Allah have mercy on him, said, 'I became eager to know this and one should only be eager to know what is permissible.'"  

لَوْ كُنْتُ اسْتَقْبَلْتُ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مَا اسْتَدْبَرْتُ مَا غَسَّلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ غَيْرُ نِسَائِهِ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ فَتَلَهَّفَتْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَلَا يُتَلَهَّفُ إِلَّا عَلَى مَا يَجُوزُ