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 to me from Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Dawud, from his father, from Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn, from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya, from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab, from Ibn Mahbub, from ‘Abdullah ibn Ghalib, from Sa‘d al-Iskaf, from Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام. Imam عليه السلام said: "Any believer who washes another believer and says, while turning him over, 'O Allah سبحانه وتعالى, this is the body of Your believing servant, and You have removed his soul from it and separated the two, so forgive him, forgive him,' Allah سبحانه وتعالى will forgive him (the washer) the sins of a year, except the major sins."