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

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 13
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 13

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

وَ بِهَذَا اَلْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اَلْمَرْأَةِ تَمُوتُ وَ يَتَحَرَّكُ اَلْوَلَدُ فِي بَطْنِهَا أَ يُشَقُّ بَطْنُهَا وَ يُسْتَخْرَجُ وَلَدُهَا قَالَ« نَعَمْ».
With this chain of narration, from Muhammad ibn Ya'qub, from a group of our companions, from Sahl ibn Ziyad, from Isma'il ibn Mihran, from Ali ibn Abi Hamzah, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام: I asked Imam عليه السلام about a woman who dies while the child in her womb is still moving. Should her abdomen be cut open, and her child removed? Imam عليه السلام said: "Yes."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 366
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb