Alee ibn Abu Talib (ra) session 16. To what extent can you get involved in the washing and burial of the unbelieving dead? ".... (for the Muslims) your dead are not impure". (Baihaqi & Hakim) The best of the sahabas (ra/a) such as Abu Bakr and Umar (ra/a) preferred the Ahlalbayt over their own family. Sadly more proofs to establish that Alee's (ra) father Abu Talib died in unbelief.