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 #65

وَ بِهَذَا اَلْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ قَالَ: إِنَّ اَلْجَرِيدَةَ قَدْرُ شِبْرٍ تُوضَعُ وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ اَلتَّرْقُوَةِ إِلَى مَا بَلَغَتْ مِمَّا يَلِي اَلْجِلْدَ اَلْأَيْمَنَ وَ اَلْأُخْرَى فِي اَلْأَيْسَرِ مِنْ عِنْدِ اَلتَّرْقُوَةِ إِلَى مَا بَلَغَتْ مِنْ فَوْقِ اَلْقَمِيصِ.

And through this chain of narrators, from ‘Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Jamil ibn Darraj: He said: "The palm branch (Jareedah) should be about a span in length. One is placed starting at the collarbone, extending along the right side of the body, close to the skin. The other is placed on the left side, starting at the collarbone, extending above the shirt."

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 327