قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) كَيْفَ أَصْنَعُ بِالْكَفَنِ قَالَ تَأْخُذُ خِرْقَةً فَتَشُدُّ بِهَا عَلَى مَقْعَدَتِهِ وَ رِجْلَيْهِ قُلْتُ فَالْإِزَارُ قَالَ إِنَّهَا لَا تُعَدُّ شَيْئاً إِنَّمَا تَصْنَعُ لِيُضَمَّ مَا هُنَاكَ لِئَلَّا يَخْرُجَ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ وَ مَا يُصْنَعُ مِنَ الْقُطْنِ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهَا ثُمَّ يُخْرَقُ الْقَمِيصُ إِذَا غُسِّلَ وَ يُنْزَعُ مِنْ رِجْلَيْهِ قَالَ ثُمَّ الْكَفَنُ قَمِيصٌ غَيْرُ مَزْرُورٍ وَ لَا مَكْفُوفٍ وَ عِمَامَةٌ يُعَصَّبُ بِهَا رَأْسُهُ وَ يُرَدُّ فَضْلُهَا عَلَى رِجْلَيْهِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘How should I deal with the shroud?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Take a cloth and tighten it upon his seat and his legs’. I said, ‘So (what about) the loincloth?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It does not count as anything. But rather, you should do so to secure what it is over there, lest something might come out from it, and what you do from the cotton (padding) is superior to it. Then the shirt is torn, when you wash, and removed from his legs’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Then the shrouding shirt should be without any buttons and hemming, and a turban is what his head is wrapped with, and its extra ends would be returned upon his legs’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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