When they intended to wash the Prophet ﷺ, they said, "By Allah, we do not know whether to remove the Messenger of Allah's ﷺ clothing as we do with our dead, or to wash him with his clothes still on him."When they disagreed, Allah cast sleep upon them until every one of them had his chin resting on his chest. Then a speaker addressed them from a corner of the house, and they did not know who he was, saying, "Wash the Prophet ﷺ with his clothes on him."So they rose to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and washed him with his shirt still on him, pouring water over the shirt and rubbing him through the shirt rather than with their bare hands.Ayesha used to say, "Had I known beforehand what I came to realize later, none would have washed him but his wives."
حدثنا النفيلي حدثنا محمد بن سلمة عن محمد بن إسحق حدثني يحيى بن عباد عن أبيه عباد بن عبد الله بن الزبير قال سمعت
لما أرادوا غسل النبي ﷺ قالوا والله ما ندري أنجرد رسول الله ﷺ من ثيابه كما نجرد موتانا أم نغسله وعليه ثيابه فلما اختلفوا ألقى الله عليهم النوم حتى ما منهم رجل إلا وذقنه في صدره ثم كلمهم مكلم من ناحية البيت لا يدرون من هو أن اغسلوا النبي ﷺ وعليه ثيابه فقاموا إلى رسول الله ﷺ فغسلوه وعليه قميصه يصبون الماء فوق القميص ويدلكونه بالقميص دون أيديهم وكانت عائشة تقول لو استقبلت من أمري ما استدبرت ما غسله إلا نساؤه
[Its chain of transmission is hasan]. Ibn Majah narrated it in the Book of Funerals, chapter on what has been said about a man washing his wife and a woman washing her husband, hadith no. 1464, from the hadith of Muhammad bin Ishaq, in abridged form. Busiri and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih, hadith nos. 2156, 2157, as did Ibn Jarud, hadith no. 517, and Hakim, according to the condition of Muslim, 3/59, and Dhahabi agreed with him. Ibn Mulaqqin graded it hasan in Tuhfat al-Muhtaj, hadith no. 768, and Bayhaqi graded it sahih in Dalail, 7/242.