Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)

From him, from Sa'd ibn Abdullah, from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn and Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Faddal, from his father, from Ali ibn Uqbah and Dhubyan ibn Hakim, from Musa ibn Ukayl, from Amr ibn Shimr, from Jabir ibn Yazid, from Abu Ja'far عليه السلام, who said: Imam عليه السلام said: "There is no harm if one of you, after burying his deceased, leveling the soil over him, and leaving the grave, stays back at the grave and says: 'O so-and-so, son of so-and-so, are you still upon the covenant that we left you with -the testimony that there is no god but Allah سبحانه وتعالى, and that Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم is the Messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى, peace be upon him and his family, and that Ali عليه السلام, the Commander of the Faithful عليه السلام, is your Imam, along with so-and-so and so-and-so,' until he mentions the last of them (all the imams عليه السلام). For if he does this, one of the two angels will say to the other: 'We have been spared the need to reach him and question him, for he has already been reminded (of his talqin).' Then they will depart from him and will not enter upon him (for questioning)."