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Muslim Funeral Customs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. S. Tritton
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There is no article “funeral” in the Enchclopædia of Islam so it seemed good to collect the material on this subject. The first charge on a Musulim' estate was the cost of his funeral, the provision of grave-clothes, tomb, and the expense of washing the body.

Washing

The body was washed by those nearest to the dead; normally men prepared a man for burial. “They turned up their sleeves, tucked their shirts into their belts, washed him, and wrapped him in the winding sheet.” Abū Baki was washed by his widow and Jābir b. Zaid gave orders that his widow should wash his body; this rule is generlized in al-Mudawwana.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , October 1938 , pp. 653 - 661
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1938

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page 658 note 1 Wellhausen, , Reste, 183.Google Scholar

page 661 note 1 Raswan, , Black Tents of Arabia, 63 f.Google Scholar