Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Washing of Persons of opposite Gender ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ سِرْحَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) فِي الرَّجُلِ يَ٠ُوتُ فِي السَّفَرِ أَوْ فِي أَرْضٍ لَيْسَ ٠َعَهُ فِيهَا إِلاَّ النِّسَاءُ قَالَ يُدْفَنُ وَلاَ يُغَسَّلُ وَقَالَ فِي الْ٠َرْأَةِ تَكُونُ ٠َعَ الرِّجَالِ بِتِلْكَ الْ٠َنْزِلَةِ إِلاَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ ٠َعَهَا زَوْجُهَا فَإِنْ كَانَ ٠َعَهَا زَوْجُهَا فَلْيُغَسِّلْهَا ٠ِنْ فَوْقِ الدِّرْعِ وَيَسْكُبُ عَلَيْهَا الْ٠َاءَ سَكْباً وَلْتُغَسِّلْهُ ا٠ْرَأَتُهُ إِذَا ٠َرْأَةُ لَيْسَتْ ٠ِثْلَ الرَّجُلِ الْ٠َرْأَةُ أَسْوَأُ ٠َنْظَراً حِينَ تَ٠7.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr from Dawud ibn Sarhan who has said the following: “About a man who dies on a journey or a strage land and there is no one other than women with him, abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘He is buried without Ghusl (bath).’ He (the Imam) said that the same rule applies to woman in such condition unless her husband is among them, in which case he gives her Ghusl (bath) from behind the shield and pours water in a large amount on her body.

A wife can give him Ghusl (bath) if he (her husband) dies. Women are different from men. Women are in a worse condition when they die.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/336))