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 عَلِيِّ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ:« يُشَقُّ اَلْكَفَنُ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَأْسِ اَلْمَيِّتِ إِذَا أُدْخِلَ قَبْرَهُ».
And through this chain of narrators, from ‘Ali ibn al-Hasan, from Ya‘qub, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from more than one person, from Abu ‘Abdullah عليه السلام:
Imam عليه السلام said: "The shroud (Kafan) should be torn near the head of the deceased when he is placed in his grave."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 336
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