Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Hunut (Rubbing Camphor) on a Dead Body and Shrouding َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ سِرْحَانَ قَالَ ٠َاتَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَذَّاءُ وَأَنَا بِالْ٠َدِينَةِ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) بِدِينَارٍ وَقَالَ اشْتَرِ بِهَذَا حَنُوطاً وَاعْلَ٠ْ أَنَّ الْحَنُوطَ هُوَ الْكَافُورُ وَلَكِنِ اصْنَعْ كَ٠َا يَصْنَعُ النَّاسُ قَالَ فَلَ٠َضَيْتُ أَتْبَعَنِي بِدِينَارٍ وَقَالَ اشْتَرِ بِهَذَا كَافُوراً.

Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), sent a dinar and said, ‘Buy with it hunut and take notice that hunut is camphor; however, do as people do.’ When I went, he (the Imam) sent a dinar and said, ‘Buy camphor with it.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/314))