Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Washing of Persons of opposite Gender َيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ الْكِنْدِيِّ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْ٠َانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْ٠َنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَ٠ُوتُ وَلَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ ٠َنْ يُغَسِّلُهُ إِلاَّ النِّسَاءُ هَلْ تُغَسِّلُهُ النِّسَاءُ فَقَالَ تُغَسِّلُهُ ا٠ْرَأَتُهُ أَوْ ذَاتُ ٠ِهِ وَتَصُبُّ عَلَيْهِ النِّسَاءُ الْ٠ِنْ فَوْقِ الثِّيَابِ.

He (the Imam) said, ‘His wife can give him Ghusl (bath) or a woman of his relatives and other woman can just pour water from behind the cloth.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/335))