Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 13
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām
Book 1, Chapter 13
Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds
وَ بِهَذَا اَلْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ اَلْكِنْدِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ اَلْمِيثَمِيِّ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَلرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلْمَيِّتِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ اَلشَّعْرُ فَيُحْلَقُ عَنْهُ أَوْ يُقَلَّمُ قَالَ« لاَ يُمَسُّ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ اِغْسِلْهُ وَ اِدْفِنْهُ».
And through this chain of narrators, from Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub, from Humayd ibn Ziyad, from al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Kindi, from Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Mithami, from Aban ibn ‘Uthman, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi ‘Abdillah:
He said: I asked Abu ‘Abdullah عليه السلام about a deceased person who has hair - should it be shaved or trimmed? Imam عليه السلام said: "Nothing should be touched from him. Wash him and bury him."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 343
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