443 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet ﷺ, concerning a man who fell from his mount and died, said: “Wash him with water and lotus leaves, and shroud him in his two garments.” Agreed upon. (1)

Lexical notes
• “With water and lotus leaves” is linked to his words, “Wash him.”
• sidr (lotus): the lote-tree; singular form is sidrah.
• “His two garments”: the dual of thawb; they are the two iḥrām cloths he was wearing—the waist-wrapper (izār) and the upper cloak (ridāʾ).

Points derived from the ḥadith
1 – During the Farewell Pilgrimage, a Companion, while standing on his mount at ʿArafah in a state of iḥrām, fell, broke his neck, and died. The Prophet ﷺ instructed them to wash him and enshroud him in the very two cloths with which he had entered iḥrām—the ridāʾ and the izār.
2 – Another wording of the report states: “Do not embalm him, and do not cover his head, for he will be raised on the Day of Resurrection proclaiming the talbiyah.” “Do not embalm him” means: do not perfume him; “do not cover his head” means: do not place any covering over it, because perfume is forbidden to someone in iḥrām, and so is covering the head for a male pilgrim.
3 – It is recommended to hasten the preparation of the deceased if the death was not sudden, for one must