Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 23
عَلِيُّ بْنُ اَلْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ بْنِ اَلصَّلْتِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ بْنِ اَلْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي غِيَاثُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ اَلرِّزَامِيُّ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ:« يُغَسِّلُ اَلْمَيِّتَ أَوْلَى اَلنَّاسِ بِهِ».
Narrated by Ali ibn Al-Husayn, from Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ali, from Abdullah ibn Al-Salt, from Abdullah ibn Al-Mughirah, from Ghiyath ibn Ibrahim Al-Rizzami narrated from Imam Ja’far Al Sadiq عليه السلام, from his father Imam Al Baqir عليه السلام:
Imam Ali عليه السلام said: “The person most entitled to wash the deceased is the one closest to him.”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 456
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