question #3 Sahih Muslim 939d, Book 11, Hadith 49 : What is the significance of braiding the hair of a deceased person in Islamic funeral rites?

” three times, five times, seven times, or more than that, if you deem fit:” Hafsa (further) said on the authority of Umm ‘Atiyya: We braided (the hair) of her head in three plaits.