Al-Kafi 4339

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from his men, from Yunus, (It has been narrated) from them^asws having said: ‘When you want to wash the deceased, so place him upon the washing place facing the Qiblah. So if there was a shirt upon him, then extract his hand from the shirt, and gather his shirt to be upon his private part, and raise it from his legs up to above the knees. And if there does not happen to be a shirt upon him, so cast a cloth to be upon his private part and pour water on to the chest, and make some of it to be in a utensil and pour the water upon it, and pat it with your hand until its foam raises and isolate the foam into something and pour the latter into the bucket in which is the water. Then wash his hands three times just as the person would do so from the sexual impurity, up to the half forearm. Then wash his private part and clean it. Then wash his head with the foam and be thorough in that, and strive that the water should not enter his nostrils and his hearing. Then turn him upon his left side and pour the water from half of his head to his feet, three times, and rub his body gently, and similar to that his back and his belly. Then turn him upon his right side and do with him similar to that. The pour out that water from the bucket and wash the bucket with clear water and wash your hands (up) to the two elbows. Then pour the water into a utensil and throw some seeds of camphor into it and do with him just as you did in the first time, beginning with his hands, then with his private parts, and wipe his belly with a gentle wiping. So if something were to come out, so clean it. Then wash his head. Then turn him upon his left side and wash his right side, and his back and his belly. Then turn him upon his right side and wash his left side just as you did the first time. Then wash your hands up to the two elbows and the bucket, and pour clear water into it and wash him with clear water just as you washed him the two times beforehand. Then wipe him with a clean cloth and deliberate to cotton (pads), and scatter something from the camphor upon him, and place it upon his private part and behind, and tamp the cotton in his behind, lest something might come out from him, and take a long cloth of a palms width, so tighten it from his loins and his thighs with an intense tightening, and wrap it in his thighs. Then bring out its top end from under his legs up to the right hand side, and push it into the place which the cloth had been wrapped it, and the cloth should happen to be long enveloping his thighs from his loins down to his two knees with a tight enveloping’.

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