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 #87

وَ بِهَذَا اَلْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُصَدِّقِ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ عَنْ عَمَّارٍ اَلسَّابَاطِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ:« لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ بَابٌ وَ بَابُ اَلْقَبْرِ مِمَّا يَلِي اَلرِّجْلَيْنِ إِذَا وَضَعْتَ اَلْجَنَازَةَ فَضَعْهَا مِمَّا يَلِي اَلرِّجْلَيْنِ يُخْرَجُ اَلْمَيِّتُ مِمَّا يَلِي اَلرِّجْلَيْنِ وَيُدْعَا لَهُ حَتَّى يُوضَعَ فِي حُفْرَتِهِ وَيُسَوَّى عَلَيْهِ اَلتُّرَابُ».

And through this chain of narrators, from ‘Ali ibn al-Hasan, from Ahmad ibn al-Hasan, from ‘Amr ibn Sa‘id, from Musaddiq ibn Sadaqah, from ‘Ammar al-Sabati, from Abu ‘Abdullah : Imam said: "Everything has a door, and the door of the grave is from the side of the feet. When you place the bier, place it from the side of the feet. The deceased should be removed from the side of the feet, and supplications should be made for him until he is placed in his grave and the soil is leveled over him."

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 336