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

Narrated with this chain of transmission from Muhammad bin Ya‘qub, from a group of our companions, from Sahl bin Ziyad, who raised it to Abu Abdillah عليه السلام: Imam عليه السلام was asked about if a man dies on a ship and it is not possible to reach the shore. Imam عليه السلام said: “He should be shrouded, embalmed, and wrapped in cloth, then cast into the water.”