Chapter on Touching the Deceased

Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 25

Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh

Book 1, Chapter 25

Chapter on Touching the Deceased

Hadith #432

432 - وَ سَأَلَهُ عَمَّارٌ اَلسَّابَاطِيُّ: عَنِ اَلصَّبِيَّةِ لاَ تُصَابُ اِمْرَأَةٌ تُغَسِّلُهَا قَالَ «يُغَسِّلُهَا أَوْلَى اَلنَّاسِ بِهَا مِنَ اَلرِّجَالِ.

Hadith.432 - Ammar al-Sabati asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq about a young girl for whom no woman is available to wash her. Imam replied: "The one most closely related to her among the men should wash her."