Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 23
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنِ اَلْمُفَضَّلِ بْنِ يُونُسَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ تَرْبِيعِ اَلْجَنَازَةِ قَالَ« إِذَا كُنْتَ فِي مَوْضِعِ تَقِيَّةٍ فَابْدَأْ بِالْيَدِ اَلْيُمْنَى ثُمَّ بِالرِّجْلِ اَلْيُمْنَى ثُمَّ اِرْجِعْ مِنْ مَكَانِكَ إِلَى مَيَامِنِ اَلْمَيِّتِ لاَ تَمُرَّ خَلْفَ رِجْلَيْهِ اَلْبَتَّةَ حَتَّى تَسْتَقْبِلَ اَلْجَنَازَةَ فَتَأْخُذَ يَدَهُ اَلْيُسْرَى ثُمَّ رِجْلَهُ اَلْيُسْرَى ثُمَّ اِرْجِعْ إِلَى مَكَانِكَ لاَ تَمُرَّ خَلْفَ اَلْجَنَازَةِ اَلْبَتَّةَ حَتَّى تَسْتَقْبِلَهَا تَفْعَلُ كَمَا فَعَلْتَ أَوَّلاً وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ تَتَّقِي فِيهِ فَإِنَّ تَرْبِيعَ اَلْجَنَازَةِ اَلَّذِي جَرَتْ بِهِ اَلسُّنَّةُ أَنْ تَبْدَأَ بِالْيَدِ اَلْيُمْنَى ثُمَّ بِالرِّجْلِ اَلْيُمْنَى ثُمَّ بِالرِّجْلِ اَلْيُسْرَى ثُمَّ بِالْيَدِ اَلْيُسْرَى حَتَّى تَدُورَ حَوْلَهَا».
Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from some of his companions, from al-Mufaddal ibn Yunus, said:
I asked Abu IbraHim عليه السلام about circling the funeral (tashiʿ). Imam عليه السلام said: "If you are in a place of taqiyyah (dissimulation), then start with the right hand, then the right leg. Then return to your position to the right side of the deceased -do not pass behind his feet at all - until you face the funeral and take his left hand, then his left leg. Then return to your place - do not pass behind the funeral at all - until you face it and do as you did at first. And if there is no need for taqiyyah in this matter, then the circling of the funeral, which has been established by the Sunnah, is that you start with the right hand, then the right leg, then the left leg, then the left hand, until you complete circling around it."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 480
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