It is narrated from Mujahid that he said: Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said to a few people who were with him: "As you can see, the time of my death has drawn near. If I had a garment sufficient as a shroud for me or for my wife, I would be shrouded only in it. I adjure you that no man among you should shroud me who has been a chief of a people, a representative (naqib), a governor or a courier (a government official)." All those people were from among the notables; among them were Hujr al-Madari and Malik al-Ashtar, and with them was a man of the Ansar. Apart from the Ansari, every one of them had held one or another of those posts. So that Ansari said: "I will shroud you in this cloak of mine and in the two garments that are in my bag; they are made from yarn spun by my mother, and she wove them for me so that I might enter ihram in them." On hearing this Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "They are sufficient for me."