447 – Ibn ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: “When ʿAbd Allah ibn Ubayy died, his son came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, ‘Give me your shirt so that I may shroud him in it.’ He therefore gave it to him.” Agreed upon (1).

448 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them both) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Wear white garments, for they are the best of your clothes, and shroud your dead in them.” Recorded by the Five, except al-Nasāʾī, and al-Tirmidhī declared it authentic (2).

Status of the hadith
This hadith is ṣaḥīḥ. It was transmitted by Aḥmad and the four Sunan compilers, except al-Nasāʾī, and it has supporting narrations:
1 – The report of ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, related by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (18/225).
2 – The report of Anas, recorded by Ibn Abī Ḥātim and al-Bazzār; see Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (5/128).
3 – The report of Samura, found with the compilers of the Sunan other than Abū Dāwūd, and with al-Ḥākim.
4 – The report of Abū al-Dardāʾ, recorded by Ibn Mājah (1474).

A number of leading scholars authenticated the ḥadith, among them: Aḥmad, Ibn Mājah, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn al-Qaṭṭān, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ḥākim, al-Dhahabī, and the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar. Ibn al-Mulqin said: “It has many acceptable supporting chains.”