Chapter on Instructing the Dying (Talqin al-Muhtadarin)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 23
سَعْدٌ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مَاتَ وَ لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ إِلاَّ نِسَاءٌ قَالَ« تُغَسِّلُهُ اِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ مَحْرَمٍ مِنْهُ وَ تَصُبُّ اَلنِّسَاءُ عَلَيْهَا اَلْمَاءَ وَ لاَ تَخْلَعُ ثَوْبَهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَتِ اِمْرَأَةٌ مَاتَتْ مَعَ رِجَالٍ وَ لَيْسَ مَعَهَا اِمْرَأَةٌ وَ لاَ مَحْرَمٌ لَهَا فَلْتُدْفَنْ كَمَاهِيَ فِي ثِيَابِهَا وَ إِنْ كَانَ مَعَهَا ذُومَحْرَمٍ لَهَا غَسَّلَهَا مِنْ فَوْقِ ثِيَابِهَا».
Sa'd narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from 'Uthman ibn 'Isa, from Sama'ah, who said:
I asked Abu 'Abdillah عليه السلام, about a man who dies and there are only women present. Imam عليه السلام said: "A woman who is a mahram (close relative) to him should wash him, and the other women should pour water over her, and she should not remove his clothes. And if it is a woman who dies among men and there is no woman or mahram for her, she should be buried as she is, in her clothes. However, if there is a mahram present for her, he should wash her from above her clothes."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 470
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 123