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 عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَ٠ِيرَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ صَاحِباً لَنَا يَسْأَلُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠َعَ رِجَالٍ لَيْسَ ٠ٍ هَلْ يُغَسِّلُونَهَا وَعَلَيْهَا ثِيَابُهَا فَقَالَ إِذاً يُدْخَلَ 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).”’ شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/338))