And through this chain of narrators, from ‘Ali ibn al-Hasan, from Ya‘qub, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from more than one person, from Abu ‘Abdullah عليه السلام:
Imam عليه السلام said: "The shroud (Kafan) should be torn near the head of the deceased when he is placed in his grave."
Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 336