He placed Zaid on the side he had stood and Umm Kulthum in...

He placed Zaid on the side he had stood and Umm Kulthum in the direction of Qiblah and prayed on both of them. The sixth narration Ubaidullah ibn Musa says, “Israil narrates from Abi Hasin, he from Aamir who said, ‘Ibn Umar offered a funeral prayer on Umm Kulthum, the daughter of Ali, and her son.

He placed Zaid on his side and prayed on those two.’” Waki‘i has reported a similar account from Zaid ibn Habib, from Sha‘abi and added: “During the (funeral) prayer, Hasan and Husain, the sons of Ali, Muhammad ibn Hanafiyah, Abdullah ibn Abbas and Abdullah ibn Ja‘far stood praying behind ibn Umar.” The seventh narration Ubaidullah ibn Musa and Israil have narrated from Jabir, he from Aamir Sha‘bi that he said: During the prayer on the corpse of Zaid ibn Umar ibn Khattab, Abdullah ibn Umar led the prayer while Hasan and Husain prayed behind him.

Had he known that it was good to say more takbir‘ (Allahu Akbar), he would have said it.” The eighth narration Ubaidullah ibn Musa narrates from Israil, from Suddi, from Abdullah ibn Baha that he said, “I saw Ibn Umar pray on Umm Kulthum and Zaid ibn Umar ibn Khattab and that he placed Zaid on the side where the Imam (the prayer leader) was standing while Hasan and Husain were witnessing the prayer.” The ninth narration Waki‘ibn Jarrah, from Hammad ibn Salamah, narrates that Ammar ibn Abi Ammar (Mawla[^5] of Bani Hashim) said, “I was present on the day on which Saeid ibn Aas, who was then the governor of Medina, prayed on those two with eighty people from the companions of (S) following him in prayer.” The tenth narration Ja‘far ibn Awn narrates from ibn Jurayh that Nafi‘ said, “The bodies of Umm Kulthum, the daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib and wife of Umar ibn Khattab and her son Zaid were brought in for funeral prayer.

On that day Saeid ibn Aas was the prayer leader.” The eleventh narration Abdullah ibn Numair narrates from Ismail, he from Ibn Abi Khalid who narrates from Aamir that, ‘Ibn Umar offered prayers on the dead bodies of his brother Zaid and that of Umm Kulthum, the daughter of Ali.

The corpses of those two were in one casket and Zaid‘s body was on the side close to the prayer leader.”[^6] Dulabi’s Narrations in Al-Durriyat Al-Tahira Another scholar who has reported and recorded narrations in this regard is Abu Bushr Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Dulabi (d. 310 A.H).