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

Abu al-Hasan Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Dawood al-Qummi, from his father, from Abu al-Hasan Ali bin al-Husayn, from Muhammad bin Yahya, from Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Yahya, from Muhammad bin Isa, from Yunus, from Ismail bin Abdul Khaliq, the nephew of Shihab bin Abdul Rabbih, narrated: Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, said: “Five types of people should not be buried immediately, unless their bodies start to decompose: The one who drowned; The one struck by lightning; The one who died due to stomach illness; The one trapped under rubble and the one suffocated by smoke.”