[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