Al-Kāfi

Hadith 604
washing-deceasedwomen
10ـ سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) فِي الْمَرْأَةِ إِذَا مَاتَتْ وَلَيْسَ مَعَهَا امْرَأَةٌ تُغَسِّلُهَا قَالَ يُدْخِلُ زَوْجُهَا يَدَهُ تَحْتَ قَمِيصِهَا فَيُغَسِّلُهَا إِلَى الْمَرَافِقِ.
10. Sahl ibn Ziyad has narrated from ibn Mahbub from ibn Ri’ab from al-Halabiy who has said the following: “About the case of a woman who dies and there is no other woman to give her Ghusl (bath), abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Her husband can reach out with his hand up to his elbow under her shirt to give her Ghusl (bath).”’
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī

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