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)

اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَلرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ اَلْبَصْرِيِّ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اِمْرَأَةٍ مَاتَتْ مَعَ رِجَالٍ قَالَ« تُلَفُّ وَ تُدْفَنُ وَ لاَ تُغَسَّلُ».
Al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id narrated from Fadalah, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Abdillah al-Basri, who said: I asked Imam عليه السلام about a woman who dies among men (non mahram). Imam عليه السلام said: "She should be wrapped and buried, and she should not be washed."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 467
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 123