Sahih Muslim Book 4, Hadith Number 2046.

Chapter : Washing of the dead body.

Umm ‘Atiyya reported: When Zainab the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) died, he said to us: Wash her odd number of times, i.e. three or five times, and put camphor or something-like camphor at the fifth time, and after you have washed her inform me. So we informed him and he gave us his under-garment, saying: “Put it next her body.”

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