Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds

Through this chain of transmission, from Muhammad bin Ya'qub, from Ali bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abi Nasr, from Jamil bin Darraj, from Muhammad bin Muslim: Abu Ja'far عليه السلام said: “If a person is killed and only flesh without bones is found, no funeral prayer is performed for him. But if bones are found without flesh, the funeral prayer is performed for him.”