(1) This is also the opinion of Malik and al-Shafi‘i, may Allah have mercy on them. It is strengthened by what al-Khatib relates in the entry on Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Makhrami (Tarikh, 5/424) through the chain of Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal. He said: “My father told me that he had written down the hadith of Ubayd Allah, from Nafi‘, from Ibn Umar: ‘We used to wash the deceased; some of us would perform a full bath afterwards and some would not.’ I asked him whether the report was sound. He replied: ‘Over there sits a young man called Muhammad ibn Abd Allah who is narrating it from Abu Hisham al-Makhzumi, from Wahib; go and write it from him.’” Ibn Hajar declared the chain sound in Talkhis, 1/138. Al-Hakim (1/386) and al-Bayhaqi (3/398) likewise transmitted, with a fair chain according to Ibn Hajar, the Prophet’s saying reported by Ibn Abbas: “You are not obliged to bathe after washing your dead, for the dead among you are not impure; it is enough for you to wash your hands.” Al-Hakim judged it authentic, and al-Dhahabi agreed. (*) Sources: al-Ikmal 3/10–11; al-Ansab al-Muttafiqa, p. 33; al-Ansab 3/359–360; Mu‘jam al-Buldan 2/182; al-Lubab 1/307; al-Mushtabah, p. 369; al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya 2/633–634; al-Tabaqat al-Saniyya, no. 1609. The nisba al-Jawri, with a hard j and ending in r, refers to “Jawr,” a name shared by two places: (i) a town in the province of Fars, famous for the damask rose (ward Jawri), and (ii) a quarter of Nishapur. The person under discussion is linked to the second, as stated by the author, al-Sam‘ani, Ibn al-Athir, Yaqut, and Ibn al-Qaysarani. Al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya mistakenly assigns him to the first locality. (2) Al-Ansab al-Muttafiqa, p. 33, records his name as: Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Mansur al-Jawri. (3) See al-Ansab 3/359–360 and al-Lubab 1/307.