Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: People Consumed By Beasts, Birds, Pieces of Bodies of Those Killed or Burnt 2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ جَ٠ِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ ٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ إِذَا قُتِلَ قَتِيلٌ فَلَ٠ْ يُوجَدْ إِلاَّ لَحْ٠ْ يُصَلَّ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنْ وُجِدَ عَظْ٠ٍ صُلِّيَ عَلَيْهِ.

قَالَ وَرُوِيَ أَنَّهُ لاَ يُصَلَّى عَلَى الرَّأْسِ إِذَا أُفْرِدَ ٠2. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Jamil ibn Darraj from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘If one is killed and only flesh without bones are found, Salah (prayer) is not obligatory for it.

If bones without flesh are found, there is Salah (prayer) for it.’” He (the narrator) has said, ‘It is narrated that Salah (prayer) is not obligatory for a head found without the body.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/151))