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)

أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَدِيدٍ وَ عَبْدِ اَلرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ مَيِّتٌ مَاتَ وَ هُوَ جُنُبٌ كَيْفَ يُغَسَّلُ وَ مَا يُجْزِيهِ مِنَ اَلْمَاءِ قَالَ« يُغَسَّلُ غُسْلاً وَاحِداً يُجْزِي ذَلِكَ لِلْجَنَابَةِ وَ لِغُسْلِ اَلْمَيِّتِ لِأَنَّهُمَا حُرْمَتَانِ اِجْتَمَعَتَا فِي حُرْمَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ».
Ahmad bin Muhammad, from Ali bin Hadid and Abd al-Rahman, from Hammad, from Hariz, from Zurara: I said to Abu Ja'far عليه السلام: "A deceased person who died while in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah) - how is he washed, and what amount of water suffices for him?" Imam عليه السلام said: "He is washed with a single ghusl, and that suffices both for janabah and for the washing of the deceased, because two obligations have combined in one obligation."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 458
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 120