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

Narrated through this chain from Muhammad bin Ya‘qub, from Ali bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi Umair, from Hisham bin al-Hakam, from Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام: Imam عليه السلام said regarding the one struck by lightning and the one who drowned. Imam عليه السلام said: “They should be delayed for three days unless signs of decomposition appear earlier.”