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

And through this chain of narrators, from Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub, from Abu ‘Ali al-Ash‘ari, from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar, from ‘Abdullah al-Hajjal, from Tha‘labah ibn Maymun, from Zurarah: He said: I asked Abu ‘Abdullah عليه السلام about how many people should enter the grave. Imam عليه السلام said: "That is up to the guardian (Wali). If he wishes, he may have an odd number of people enter, and if he wishes, he may have an even number enter."