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

The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, narrated from Abu al-Qasim Ja'far ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Ya'qub, from Humayd ibn Ziyad, from Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Sama'ah, from Muhammad ibn Abi Hamzah, from Ali ibn Yaqtin, who said: I asked the righteous servant (of Allah سبحانه وتعالى), peace be upon him, about a woman who dies while her child is still in her womb. He (Imam Al Kadhim عليه السلام) said: "Her abdomen should be cut open, and her child should be removed."