كَتَبَ أَبِي فِي وَصِيَّتِهِ أَنْ أُكَفِّنَهُ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَثْوَابٍ أَحَدُهَا رِدَاءٌ لَهُ حِبَرَةٌ كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِيهِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَ ثَوْبٌ آخَرُ وَ قَمِيصٌ فَقُلْتُ لِأَبِي لِمَ تَكْتُبُ هَذَا فَقَالَ أَخَافُ أَنْ يَغْلِبَكَ النَّاسُ وَ إِنْ قَالُوا كَفِّنْهُ فِي أَرْبَعَةٍ أَوْ خَمْسَةٍ فَلَا تَفْعَلْ وَ عَمِّمْنِي بِعِمَامَةٍ وَ لَيْسَ تُعَدُّ الْعِمَامَةُ مِنَ الْكَفَنِ إِنَّمَا يُعَدُّ مَا يُلَفُّ بِهِ الْجَسَدُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umyer, from Hammad, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘My<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup> wrote in his<sup>asws</sup> bequest that I<sup>asws</sup> should enshroud him<sup>asws</sup> in three clothes – one of them being a cloak of his<sup>asws</sup> which he<sup>asws</sup> used to pray <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> in on the day of Friday, and another cloth, and a shirt. So I<sup>asws</sup> said to my<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Why did you<sup>asws</sup> write this?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Out of fear that the people might overcome you and if they were to say, ‘Shroud him<sup>asws</sup> in four, or five (clothes)’, do not do it, and turban me<sup>asws</sup> with a turban, and do not count the turban as being from the shroud. But rather, count what the body is wrapped with’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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