CHAPTER: Covering The Deceased When Washing Him.
Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Do not unveil your thigh, and do not look at the thigh of the living and the dead.
Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: By Allah, we did not know whether we should take off the clothes of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as we took off the clothes of our dead, or wash him while his clothes were on him. When they (the people) differed among themselves, Allah cast slumber over them until every one of them had put his chin on his chest. Then a speaker spoke from a side of the house, and they did not know who he was: Wash the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم while his clothes are on him. So they stood round the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and washed him while he had his shirt on him. They poured water on his shirt, and rubbed him with his shirt and not with their hands. Aishah used to say: If I had known beforehand about my affair what I found out later, none would have washed him except his wives.