Nafi Abu Ghalib reported,

I was on the road of Mirbad when a funeral procession passed by, accompanied by a large crowd. They said it was the funeral of Abdullah bin Umayr, so I followed it. There I saw a man wearing a thin cloak, riding his small horse, with a piece of cloth on his head shielding him from the sun.I asked, "Who is this nobleman?"They replied, "This is Anas bin Malik."When the bier was set down, Anas stood and prayed over it, with me standing right behind him, nothing blocking my view. He stood at the head of the deceased and pronounced four takbirs, neither prolonging them nor rushing through them, then went to sit down.The people said, "Abu Hamza, the Ansari woman."So they brought her forward on a green bier, and he stood at the level of her midsection and prayed over her in the same manner as he had prayed over the man, then sat down.Ala bin Ziyad asked, "Abu Hamza, is this how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to do it? Did he pray over the deceased the way you did, pronouncing four takbirs, standing at the head of the man and at the midsection of the woman?"He answered, "Yes."Ala then asked, "Abu Hamza, did you fight alongside the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?"He replied, "Yes, I fought with him at Hunayn. The polytheists came out and charged at us until we saw our own cavalry behind our backs. Among the enemy was a man who kept charging at us, crushing us and breaking through our lines. Then Allah defeated them, and they began to be brought forward to pledge allegiance to him on Islam.A man among the companions of the Prophet ﷺ said, 'I have made a vow that if Allah delivers to me the man who was crushing us today, I will strike his neck.'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ remained silent. Then the man was brought forward, and when he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he said, 'Messenger of Allah, I have repented to Allah.'So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ held back from accepting his pledge, so that the other man could fulfill his vow. The companion kept presenting himself before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ hoping he would order him to kill the man, but he was too in awe of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to kill him on his own. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw that the companion was not going to act, he accepted the man's pledge.The companion then said, 'Messenger of Allah, what about my vow?'He replied, 'I only held back from him all this time so that you would fulfill your vow.'He said, 'Messenger of Allah, why did you not signal to me with your eye?'The Prophet ﷺ answered, 'It is not fitting for a prophet to make signals with his eye.'"Abu Ghalib said, I asked about what Anas had done in standing at the woman's midsection, and they told me that this was simply because there were no covered biers in those days, so the imam would stand at the level of her midsection to screen her from the people.

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عن نافع أبي غالب قال

كنت في سكة المربد فمرت جنازة معها ناس كثير قالوا جنازة عبد الله بن عمير فتبعتها فإذا أنا برجل عليه كساء رقيق على بريذينته وعلى رأسه خرقة تقيه من الشمس فقلت من هذا الدهقان قالوا هذا أنس بن مالك فلما وضعت الجنازة قام أنس فصلى عليها وأنا خلفه لا يحول بيني وبينه شيء فقام عند رأسه فكبر أربع تكبيرات لم يطل ولم يسرع ثم ذهب يقعد فقالوا يا أبا حمزة المرأة الأنصارية فقربوها وعليها نعش أخضر فقام عند عجيزتها فصلى عليها نحو صلاته على الرجل ثم جلس فقال العلاء بن زياد يا أبا حمزة هكذا كان يفعل رسول الله ﷺ يصلي على الجنازة كصلاتك يكبر عليها أربعا ويقوم عند رأس الرجل وعجيزة المرأة قال نعم قال يا أبا حمزة غزوت مع رسول الله ﷺ قال نعم غزوت معه حنينا فخرج المشركون فحملوا علينا حتى رأينا خيلنا وراء ظهورنا وفي القوم رجل يحمل علينا فيدقنا ويحطمنا فهزمهم الله وجعل يجاء بهم فيبايعونه على الإسلام فقال رجل من أصحاب النبي ﷺ إن علي نذرا إن جاء الله بالرجل الذي كان منذ اليوم يحطمنا لأضربن عنقه فسكت رسول الله ﷺ وجيء بالرجل فلما رأى رسول الله ﷺ قال يا رسول الله تبت إلى الله فأمسك رسول الله ﷺ لا يبايعه ليفي الآخر بنذره قال فجعل الرجل يتصدى لرسول الله ﷺ ليأمره بقتله وجعل يهاب رسول الله ﷺ أن يقتله فلما رأى رسول الله ﷺ أنه لا يصنع شيئا بايعه فقال الرجل يا رسول الله نذري فقال إني لم أمسك عنه منذ اليوم إلا لتوفي بنذرك فقال يا رسول الله ألا أومضت إلي فقال النبي ﷺ إنه ليس لنبي أن يومض قال أبو غالب فسألت عن صنيع أنس في قيامه على المرأة عند عجيزتها فحدثوني أنه إنما كان لأنه لم تكن النعوش فكان الإمام يقوم حيال عجيزتها يسترها من القوم