3. Funerals

٣۔ كِتَابُ الْجَنَائِزِ

3.29 [Machine] Washing the deceased with hot water

٣۔٢٩ غُسْلُ الْمَيِّتِ بِالْمَاءِ الْحَمِيمِ

nasai-kubra:2021Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Layth > Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb > Abū al-Ḥasan a freed slave of Um Qays b. Miḥṣan > Um Qays

"My son died, and I felt very sad. I said to the one who was washing him: 'Do not wash my son with cold water and kill him." 'Ukashah bin Mihsan went to the Messenger of Allah and told him what she had said, and he smiled then said: "What did she say, may Allah give her long life?" And we do not know of any woman who lived as long as she lived. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1882)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٠٢١أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مَوْلَى أُمِّ قَيْسٍ بِنْتِ مِحْصَنٍ عَنْ أُمِّ قَيْسٍ قَالَتْ

تُوُفِّيَ ابْنِي فَجَزِعْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ لِلَّذِي يُغَسِّلُهُ لَا تُغَسِّلِ ابْنِي بِالْمَاءِ الْبَارِدِ فَانْطَلَقَ عُكَّاشَةُ بْنُ مِحْصَنٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِقَوْلِهَا فَتَبَسَّمَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «مَا قَالَتْ طَالَ عُمْرُهَا فَلَا نَعَلَمُ امْرَأَةً عَمَّرَتْ مَا عَمَّرَتْ»