Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 13

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 13

Chapter on Guiding the Dying, Positioning Them at Death, Procedures for Their Final Moments, Washing Them, and Placing Them in Shrouds

Hadith #166

وَ أَخْبَرَنِي اَلشَّيْخُ أَيَّدَهُ اَللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَلْحَمِيدِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ وَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَنْ أَبِي اَلْقَاسِمِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَلِيٍّ اَلْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَلْجَبَّارِ عَنِ اِبْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ أَبِي اَلنُّمَيْرِ مَوْلَى اَلْحَارِثِ بْنِ اَلْمُغِيرَةِ اَلنَّضْرِيِّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ حَدِّثْنِي عَنِ اَلصَّبِيِّ إِلَى كَمْ تُغَسِّلُهُ اَلنِّسَاءُ فَقَالَ« إِلَى ثَلاَثِ سِنِينَ».

The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah support him, narrated from Abu Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Ali, from Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, from Ahmad ibn Idris, from Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya, from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid, from Yunus ibn Ya‘qub. He also narrated from Abu al-Qasim Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub, from Abu Ali al-Ash‘ari, from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar, from Ibn Faddal, from Yunus ibn Ya‘qub, from Abu al-Numayr, the servant of al-Harith ibn al-Mughira al-Nadri, who said: I asked Abu Abdullah , about the age until which women may wash a deceased boy. Imam replied: “Until the age of three years.”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 363