Abdullah bin Shaqayq al-Aqayli عبد الله بن شقيق العقيلي · Chapters Regarding Funerals

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was shrouded in three thin white Suhuli cloths.”

“You should move with tranquility.”

“We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to attend a funeral, and he saw some people who had cast aside their upper sheets and were walking in their shirts only. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Are you adopting the practice of the days of ignorance?’ or; ‘Are you imitating the behavior of the days of ignorance? I was about to supplicate against you that you would return in a different form.’ So they put their sheets back…

It was narrated from Abu Sa’eed that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was brought into his grave from the direction of the Qiblah, and he was placed in his grave gently.