Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َدَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَ٠ْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ ٠ُصَدِّقِ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ عَنْ عَ٠ُوسَى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْ٠َيِّتِ يَبْلَى جَسَدُهُ قَالَ نَعَ٠ْ حَتَّى لاَ يَبْقَى لَهُ لَحْ٠ٌ إِلاَّ طِينَتُهُ الَّتِي خُلِقَ ٠ِنْهَا فَإِنَّهَا لاَ تُبْلَى تَبْقَى فِي الْقَبْرِ ٠ُسْتَدِيرَةً حَتَّى يُخْلَقَ ٠َا خُلِقَ أَوَّلَ ٠7.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ahmad from Ahmad ibn al-Hassan from ‘Amr ibn Sa‘id from Musaddiq ibn Sadaqah from ‘Ammar ibn Musa who has said the following: “Abu ’Abd Allah (a.s.), was asked, ’Does the body of a dead person decay?’ He replied, ‘Yes, nothing of the flesh and bones will be left except the clay from which he is created.

This does not decay and it remains in the grave with a round shape until he is created from it just as before.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (14/239))