Hadith 4

(The books) ‘Al Uyoun’, and ‘Al Ilal’ – from Abdul Wahid Bin Muhammad Bin Ubdous, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Quteyba, from Al Fazl Bin Shazan among what he reported from the reasons, ‘From Al-Reza-asws having said: ‘If it is said, ‘Why have they been Commanded with the washing from sexual impurity and they have not been Commanded with the washing from the toilet, and it is filthier than the sexual impurity and dirtier? ’
It will be said, ‘For the reason that the sexual impurity is from the self of the human being and it is something which emerges from entirety of his body, while the toilet isn’t from the self of the person. But rather it is a feed which enters from a door and exits from a door’. If he says, ‘Why is the deceased Commanded to be washed? ’
It will be said, ‘Because when he died, the impurities and the afflictions and the harms overcame upon him, so it is recommended that he should be clean when he proceeds to the clean people from the Angels, those who will be in charge of him and they would be touching him regarding what is between them, being clean heading with it to Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic’’. [4]
And it has been reported from one of the Imams-asws having said: ‘There is none from a person dying except the sexual impurity emerges from him. For that reason, the washing is obligated. If he says, ‘Why is the one washing him been Commanded with the washing? ’
It will be said, ‘For the reason of cleanliness from what had hit him from the splashing of (washing) the deceased, because the deceased, when the souls exit from him, most of his afflictions remain, and lest the people attach with it and touch it when the illness of the impurity and the afflictions have prevailed upon him’. If he says, ‘Why is the washing not obligated upon the one who touches something from the dead bodies, apart from the human being, like the birds, and the beats, and the lions, and other than that? ’
It was said, ‘Because these things, all of them are clothed in feathers, and wool, and hair, and fur, and all of this is pure, not (counted as) dead, and rather something from it touches which is pure from the living and the dead which it had worn it and is on top of it’’. [5]