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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Laws of Ayatullah Khui The Method of Bathing a Dead Body 556. It is obligatory to bathe a dead body thrice. The first bathing should be with water mixed with "Sidr" (Ben) leaves. The second bathing should be with water mixed with camphor and the third should be with clean water. 557.

"Sidr" leaves and camphor should neither be so much that the water should become mixed, nor so little that it may be said that "Sidr" leaves and camphor have not been mixed in it. 558. If "Sidr" leaves and camphor are not available to the extent required, then the quantity available should be mixed with water. 559. If a person dies while he is in the state of ehram (i.e. he is wearing pilgrim's dress) his dead body should be washed with clean water and not with the ,water mixed with camphor.

In case, however, he is wearing ehram for the purpose of Hajj and has completed sa'i his dead body should be washed with water mixed with camphor. 560. If "Sidr" leaves and camphor or anyone of these things is not available or its use is not permissible (e.g. if it has been usurped) the dead body should be bathed, on the basis of precaution, with dean water in lieu of the thing which is not available and it should also be given tayammum. 561.

A person who bathes a dead body should be a Shi'ah Ithna' Ashari Muslim, adult, and sane, and should know the rules about bathing. However, if the dead body is of a Muslim who is not Ithna' Ashari and a person belonging to his school bathes it according to his own creed then no obligation of the Ithna' Ashari Muslim rests with him. 562. One who bathes the dead body should perform this act with the intention of complying with the commands of Allah. 563.

Bathing of a Muslim child, even though he is illegitimate, is obligatory and the bathing, shrouding and burial of an unbeliever and his children is not permissible. And it is necessary to bath a person who has been insane since childhood and has become adult in the state of insanity, provided that he is governed by the orders of Islam. 564.

If a child of 4 months or more is still-born its dead body should be bathed, but if it had not yet completed 4 months its body should be covered, on the basis of precaution, with a piece of cloth and buried without its being bathed. 565. It is unlawful for a man to bathe the dead body of a woman and for a woman to bathe the dead body of a man.