Umm Atiya, a woman from the Ansar among those who had pledged allegiance to the Prophet ﷺ, came to Basra hoping to reach a son of hers before he died, but she did not arrive in time. She narrated to us, saying, "The Prophet ﷺ came in to us while we were washing his daughter and said, 'Wash her three times, or five, or more than that if you see fit, with water and lotus leaves, and put camphor, or a little camphor, in the final wash. When you have finished, let me know.'"She said, "When we had finished, he handed us his waist-wrapper and said, 'Wrap her in this as her innermost shroud.'"He did not say more than that. I do not know which of his daughters it was. The narrator claimed that "wrapping her in it" meant they were to shroud her in it.Ibn Sirin likewise used to instruct that a woman be wrapped in a shroud rather than dressed in a waist-wrapper.
جاءت أم عطية امرأة من الأنصار من اللاتي بايعن، قدمت البصرة تبادر ابنا لها فلم تدركه، فحدثتنا قالت: دخل علينا النبي ﷺ ونحن نغسل ابنته فقال: اغسلنها ثلاثا، أو خمسا، أو أكثر من ذلك إن رأيتن ذلك بماء وسدر، واجعلن في الآخرة كافورا، فإذا فرغتن فآذنني قالت: فلما فرغنا ألقى إلينا حقوه، فقال: أشعر نها إياه ولم يزد على ذلك، ولا أدري أي بناته، وزعم أن الإشعار الففنها فيه. وكذلك كان ابن سيرين: يأمر المرأة أن يشعر ولا تؤزر.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Funerals (1261), from Ahmad, who said, Abdullah bin Wahb told us, Ibn Jurayj informed us, that Ayub informed him, saying, I heard Ibn Sirin say, then he mentioned it. Muslim also reported it in the Book of Funerals (36/939) through another route from Ayub, similarly, up to his words, "wrap her in it as an undergarment." The undergarment is the cloth that lies next to the body.As for his statement, "he claimed," this refers to Ayub, as is made explicit in the narration of Abdul-Razzaq, from Ibn Jurayj, who said, I asked Ayub about his statement, "wrap her in it as an undergarment," meaning to tie it around her as a waist wrap. He said, I think he only said, wrap her in it.As for his statement, "I do not know which of his daughters," this is Ayub speaking, because he did not hear her name mentioned by Hafsa. It has been clarified in other narrations that she was Umm Kulthum, though it has also been said that she was Zaynab, daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. Some of the research on this matter will follow.