Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 23
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ اَلْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَلْجَبَّارِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ يَخْرُجُ فِي اَلسَّفَرِ وَ مَعَهُ اِمْرَأَتُهُ فَتَمُوتُ يُغَسِّلُهَا قَالَ« نَعَمْ وَ أُمَّهُ وَ أُخْتَهُ وَ نَحْوَ هَذَا يُلْقِي عَلَى عَوْرَتِهَا خِرْقَةً».
Abu Ali al-Ash'ari narrated from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar, from Safwan, from Mansur, who said:
I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, about a man who sets out on a journey with his wife, and she dies. Can he wash her? Imam عليه السلام said: "Yes, and also (he can wash) his mother, his sister, and those similar (in relation) to them. He should place a cloth over the private parts."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 465
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 123