Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddique RAH about his shroud.

It was narrated to us by Abu al-Qasim 'Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al- AzIz al-BaghawI [1]that Ibn Abl Mulaykah[2 

] narrated

 that Aishah R.A said, “My father told me:

In what did you shroud the Mes-senger of Allah ﷺ?’ 

I replied that we shrouded him in three pieces of clothing. 

 He said, ‘Take these two clothes of mine and wash them— both of which were dyed in a reddish colour—and buy me a third piece of clothing but make sure it is not expensive.

 I replied,‘O father, We are well off so we can buy an expensive one. 

 He said, ‘O daughter, the living is worthier of wearing new garments than the dead. Shroud is for nothing but oozing water and pus. 

 Allah knows best!

Note: [1]. He was a hafiz, a thiqah narrator and an illustrious scholar. He heard from  an excess of three hundred scholars. He lived a long life, he was born during the month of Ramadan in the year 214H and he died during the night of al-Fitr in

the year 317H.

[2] He is ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Ubaydallah ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Mulaykah al-Madani. He

met thirty Companions and was a thiqah narrator and a faqih. He passed away during the year 117H.