Amirul Mo’meneen Ali (a.s.) uncovered the face of Fatemah (s.a.) and found a letter underneath her head. He lifted it up and saw written in it, "In the Name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful ! It is the will of Fatemah (s.a.), the daughter of the Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.). Fatemah bears witness that there is no other Deity except Allah (s.w.t.). And Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) is the Messenger of Allah. That Paradise and hell is truth and there is no doubt regarding the arrival of Qiyamah and Allah (s.w.t.) shall raise the dead ones from their graves. O Ali ! I am Fatemah the daughter of Muhammad (s.a.w.s.), whom Allah (s.w.t.) had united in marriage with you, so that I may be linked to you in this world as well as the Hereafter, while you are more worthy of me than anyone else. Then give me bath, shroud me, and give me Hunoot[245] at night. Then recite Prayers upon me and bury me at night, and do not inform anyone else".
[245] After bathing a dead body, it is obligatory to embalm it (Hunoot), viz. to apply camphor on the parts of the Sajdah i.e. the forehead, both the palms, both the knees and the toes of both feet.