Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 23
حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ اَلْكِنْدِيِّ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَلرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ يَمُوتُ وَ لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ مَنْ يُغَسِّلُهُ إِلاَّ اَلنِّسَاءُ هَلْ تُغَسِّلُهُ اَلنِّسَاءُ فَقَالَ «تُغَسِّلُهُ اِمْرَأَتُهُ أَوْ ذَاتُ مَحْرَمِهِ وَ تَصُبُّ عَلَيْهِ اَلنِّسَاءُ اَلْمَاءَ صَبّاً مِنْ فَوْقِ اَلثِّيَابِ».
Humayd ibn Ziyad narrated from al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Kindi, from more than one source, from Aban ibn Uthman, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Abdillah, who said:
I asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, about a man who dies and has no one to wash him except women. Should the women wash him? Imam عليه السلام said: "His wife or a woman who is a close relative (mahram) should wash him, and the women should pour water over him from above the garments."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 464
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 122