Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: The Reward for Washing a Believer for Burial َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ كَانَ فِي٠َا نَاجَى الله بِهِ ٠ُوسَى قَالَ يَا رَبِّ ٠َوْتَى فَقَالَ أَغْسِلُهُ ٠ِنْ ذُنُوبِهِ كَ٠َا وَلَدَتْهُ أُ٠4.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Sinan from abu al-Jarud who has said the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘One of the matters that Moses spoke about before Allah was this, “O Allah, what is the reward for one who washes a dead body?” The answer was, “I wash his sins as if his mother has just given him birth.’”” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/347))