Chapter on the Prayer over the Dead
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 3|Book 2|Chapter 10
عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ اَلْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مَعْرُوفٍ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ:« لاَ يُصَلَّى عَلَى عُضْوِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ رِجْلٍ أَوْ يَدٍ أَوْ رَأْسٍ مُنْفَرِداً فَإِذَا كَانَ اَلْبَدَنُ فَصَلِّ عَلَيْهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ نَاقِصاً مِنَ اَلرَّأْسِ وَ اَلْيَدِ وَ اَلرِّجْلِ»
From him, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa from al-Abbas ibn Ma'ruf from Talhah ibn Zayd:
Imam al-Sadiq عليه السلام said: “The funeral prayer is not performed over a limb of a man, whether a leg, or a hand, or a head, when it is separate (from the body). But if the body is present, then pray over it, even if it is missing the head, the hand, and the leg.” (meaning the body containing the heart)
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 363
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 312