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
أَخْبَرَنِي اَلشَّيْخُ أَيَّدَهُ اَللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْ أَبِي اَلْقَاسِمِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَشْيَمَ عَنْ يُونُسَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ اَلرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ تَكُونُ لَهُ اَلْجَارِيَةُ اَلْيَهُودِيَّةُ وَ اَلنَّصْرَانِيَّةُ فَيُوَاقِعُهَا فَتَحْمِلُ ثُمَّ يَدْعُوهَا إِلَى أَنْ تُسْلِمَ فَتَأْبَى عَلَيْهِ فَدَنَا وِلاَدَتُهَا فَمَاتَتْ وَهِيَ تُطْلَقُ وَاَلْوَلَدُ فِي بَطْنِهَا وَمَاتَ اَلْوَلَدُ أَ يُدْفَنُ مَعَهَا عَلَى اَلنَّصْرَانِيَّةِ أَوْ يُخْرَجُ مِنْهَا وَ يُدْفَنُ عَلَى فِطْرَةِ اَلْإِسْلاَمِ فَكَتَبَ« يُدْفَنُ مَعَهَا».
The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, reported from Abu Al-Qasim Ja'far bin Muhammad, from his father, from Sa'd bin Abdullah, from Ahmad bin Muhammad, from Ahmad bin Ashyam, from Yunus, who said:
I asked Al-Ridha عليه السلام, about a man who owns a Jewish or Christian slave woman, has relations with her, and she becomes pregnant. He then invites her to Islam, but she refuses. When her delivery approaches, she dies while the unborn child is still in her womb, and the child also dies. Should the child be buried with her according to her Christian faith, or should the child be removed and buried according to the natural disposition (Fitrah) of Islam? Al-Ridha عليه السلام, replied: “The child should be buried with her.”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 356
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 116