سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ غُسْلِ الْمَيِّتِ فَقَالَ اغْسِلْهُ بِمَاءٍ وَ سِدْرٍ ثُمَّ اغْسِلْهُ عَلَى أَثَرِ ذَلِكَ غَسْلَةً أُخْرَى بِمَاءٍ وَ كَافُورٍ وَ ذَرِيرَةٍ إِنْ كَانَتْ وَ اغْسِلْهُ الثَّالِثَةَ بِمَاءٍ قَرَاحٍ قُلْتُ ثَلَاثَ غَسَلَاتٍ لِجَسَدِهِ كُلِّهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ إِذَا غُسِّلَ قَالَ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ يَكُونَ عَلَيْهِ قَمِيصٌ فَغَسِّلْهُ مِنْ تَحْتِهِ وَ قَالَ أُحِبُّ لِمَنْ غَسَّلَ الْمَيِّتَ أَنْ يَلُفَّ عَلَى يَدِهِ الْخِرْقَةَ حِينَ يُغَسِّلُهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed and Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Al Naar Bin Suweyd, from Ibn Muskan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about washing the deceased, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Wash him with water and lotus (leaves). Then wash him upon the footsteps of that with another washing with water and camphor and fragrant powder if there was, and wash him for the third washing with clear water’. I said, ‘Three washings for his body, all of it?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes’’. I said, ‘There would happen to be a cloth upon him when he is washed?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If there is capacity that there happens to be a shirt upon him, so wash him from beneath it’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I would love it for the one who wash the deceased if he wraps a rag upon his hand when he washes him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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