Al-Kafi 4418

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Al Hassan, from Amro Bin Saeed, from Musaddaq Bin Sadaqa, from Ammar Bin Musa, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having been asked about the Muslim man dying during a journey and there is no Muslim man with him, and with him are Christian men, and with him is his paternal aunt and his maternal aunt, both Muslim. How would his washing be dealt with?’ He^asws said: ‘His paternal aunt and his maternal aunt should wash him in his shirt, and the Christians should not go near him’. And about the woman who is dying during the journey and there is no Muslim man with her, and with her are Christian women, and her paternal uncle and her maternal uncle, both Muslims. He^asws said: ‘They can both wash her, and the Christian women would not go near her, just as the Muslim women would wash her apart from that there would happen to be a shield upon her, so the water would be poured from above the shield’. I said, ‘Supposing a Muslim man dies and there is neither a Muslim man with him nor a Muslim woman from his relatives, and with him are Christian men and Christian women, there not being any relationship between him and them’. He^asws said: ‘The Christian men would wash (themselves), then they would wash him, for there is (a state of) desperation’. And about the Muslim woman dying and there is neither a Muslim woman with her nor a Muslim man from her relatives, and with her are Christian woman and Muslim men, there not being any relationship between her and them. He^asws said: ‘The Christian women would wash (themselves), then they would wash her’. And about the Christian man who happens to be in the journey and he is with the Muslims, and he dies. He^asws said: ‘The Muslim should not wash him nor is there a prestige, nor should he bury him, nor stand upon his grave’.

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