should musk be sprinkled on the deceased or rubbed onto him? He said: 'It does not matter. It has been narrated from Ibn Umar that he sprinkled it on him, and it has been narrated from him that he rubbed it on him with musk. Ibn Sirin anointed a person with musk from his head to his feet.' Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said: 'Hanut (embalming perfume) is placed on the organs of prostration: the forehead, the palms, the knees, and the tops of the feet.'

347 - Issue: He said: '(And he should not place camphor in his eyes.)'

This is disliked only because it spoils and destroys the organ, and such is not done to the living. Ahmad said: 'We have only heard this regarding the mosques (1).' It was recounted to him from Ibn Umar that he used to do it (2), but he denied that Ibn Umar had done it and disapproved of it.

348 - Issue: He said: '(And if something slight exits from him after he has been placed in his shrouds, he is not returned for washing, and he is carried.)'

We know of no disagreement among the scholars regarding this. The reasoning for this is that returning him for washing involves severe hardship, as it would require taking him out, re-washing him, washing his shrouds, and drying or replacing them, and one is not safe from a similar occurrence a second or third time, so it is waived for that reason (1). There is also no need to repeat his ablution, nor to wash the area of impurity, to avoid this hardship, and he is carried as he is. It is narrated from al-Sha'bi that when one of his daughters was wrapped in (2) her shrouds, something appeared from her, so al-Sha'bi said: 'Lift [her].' However, if what exited was large and significant, the implication of the words of al-Khiraqi here is that his washing is repeated if it is before the completion of the seventh (3) washing, because a large amount is considered excessive.