Classical Sunni sources preserve a report that Asma bint Abi Bakr may Allah be pleased with her prayed that she would not die until her eyes were comforted by seeing the body of her son Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr after his death. Al-Lalaka'i's route says permission was later granted to take the body down, that Asma took part in or directed its washing and shrouding, and that she prayed over him. The same route says that a full week did not pass before Asma died. A separate historical route independently corroborates the funeral sequence, while classical biographical sources differ over the exact interval between her son's death and hers.
Ibn Abi Mulayka reports that he was among those who later came to Asma with the news that permission had been granted to take down Abd Allah's body. The narration then moves into the funeral sequence. Asma participated in or directed the washing and shrouding of her son's dismembered body, and after those preparations were complete, she stood and prayed over him. In the al-Lalaka'i route, this moment answers the concern expressed in her earlier prayer: she lived long enough to see her son's body released, prepared, and prayed over.
The same report then adds a striking historical outcome. It says that a complete week did not pass before Asma herself died. Al-Lalaka'i includes the event in his section on the karamat of Asma bint Abi Bakr, showing that the classical author understood the prayer and the short interval before her death as an extraordinary answered-prayer account.
The evidence, however, requires some qualification. The principal exact-prayer route passes through Abu Amir al-Khazzaz, Salih ibn Rustum, whom Ibn Hajar describes as truthful but frequently mistaken and about whom earlier critics differed. A separate report through Juwayriya ibn Asma from his grandmother independently supports the funeral sequence: Asma washed, perfumed, shrouded, and prayed over Abd Allah after permission was granted. That independent route strengthens the historical core without making every detail of the principal prayer route equally certain.
Classical biographical sources also disagree over the precise interval between Abd Allah's death and Asma's. Reports give a week, three days, ten days, twenty days, and other short periods. The strongest public conclusion is therefore limited but meaningful: classical Sunni sources preserve Asma's prayer to remain alive until she could see and bury her son, and they agree that she died soon afterward. The exact number of days should remain a transmitted variant rather than be flattened into one certain chronology.
Conclusion
Classical Sunni sources preserve Asma bint Abi Bakr's prayer to remain alive until she could see and bury her son Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, followed by reports that she died soon afterward. The event supports medium-confidence inclusion with caution, while the exact post-burial interval should remain a transmitted variant.