Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 23
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 23

Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)

سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ مَشَى مَعَ جَنَازَةٍ حَتَّى يُصَلِّيَ عَلَيْهَا ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ كَانَ لَهُ قِيرَاطٌ فَإِذَا مَشَى مَعَهَا حَتَّى تُدْفَنَ كَانَ لَهُ قِيرَاطَانِ وَ اَلْقِيرَاطُ مِثْلُ جَبَلِ أُحُدٍ».
Sahl ibn Ziyad, from Ibn Abi Najran, from 'Asim ibn Humayd, from Abi Basir, who said: I heard Abu Ja'far عليه السلام say: "Whoever walks with a funeral procession until he prays over it, then returns, will have one qirat (units of reward). But if he walks with it until it is buried, he will have two qirats, and each qirat (units of reward) is like the size of Mount Uhud."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 483
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb