Al-Kafi 4450

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of his companions, from Al Fazl Bin Yunus who said, ‘I asked Abu Ibrahim^asws (7^th Imam^asws) about (lifting of the) four corners of the coffin. He^asws said: ‘When you were in a place of dissimulation, so begin with the right hand, then with the right leg, then return from your place to the right hand side of the deceased, not passing behind his leg at all until you face the coffin. So take to his left hand, then his left hand, then return from your place and do not pass behind the coffin at all until you face it, doing just as you did firstly. So if there does not happen to be dissimulation, then the (procedure) of lifting up all four corners of the coffin, which is of the Sunnah, is to life-up the corner where the right hand (of the dead person) is.  Thereafter, one should lift-up the corner where the right leg is, then the left leg and finally lift-up the corner where the left hand is until the circle is complete. (Anticlockwise movement starting from front end giving right shoulder)

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