وَعَنْ نَافِعٍ أَبِي غَالِبٍ
قَالَ: صَلَّيْتُ مَعَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَلَى جَنَازَةِ رَجُلٍ فَقَامَ حِيَال رَأسه ثمَّ جاؤوا بِجَنَازَةِ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالُوا: يَا أَبَا حَمْزَةَ صَلِّ عَلَيْهَا فَقَامَ حِيَالَ وَسَطِ السَّرِيرِ فَقَالَ لَهُ الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ: هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَامَ على الْجِنَازَة مَقَامَكَ مِنْهَا؟
وَمِنَ الرَّجُلِ مَقَامَكَ مِنْهُ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ نَحْوُهُ مَعَ زِيَادَةٍ وَفِيهِ: فَقَامَ عِنْد عجيزة الْمَرْأَة
Nafi Abu Ghalib said he prayed along with Anas ibn Malik at a man’s funeral and he stood opposite his head. Then some people brought along the bier of a woman of Quraish and said, “Abu Hamza (The kunya of Anas ibn Malik, the Prophet’s servant), pray over her,” and he stood opposite the middle of the bier.
Al-Ala ibn Ziyad said to him, “Thus did I see God’s messenger do. He stood over the bier in the same position as you did in relation to her and in the same position as you did in relation to the man.”
He replied, “That is so.” Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it. In Abu Dawud’s version there is something similar, along with an addition containing the words “He stood at the woman’s buttocks.”