Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds

And through this chain of narrators, from ‘Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Jamil ibn Darraj: He said: "The palm branch (Jareedah) should be about a span in length. One is placed starting at the collarbone, extending along the right side of the body, close to the skin. The other is placed on the left side, starting at the collarbone, extending above the shirt."