Hadith 43

wrote in his-asws bequest that I-asws should enshroud him-asws in three clothes’ – and he-asws continued the Hadeeth to his-asws words: ‘And we-asws cleaved the grave for him-asws with a cleaving for a reason that he‑asws was a large-bodied person, and he-asws had instructed me-asws that I-asws should make the height of his-asws grave, four open fingers’. And he-asws said: ‘Perform Wud’u when you enter the deceased into the grave and wash when you wash (him), and do not wash when you carry him’. And he-asws said: ‘When you come with him to the grave, then remove him from direction of his head, and when you place him in the grave, then recite Ayat Al Kursi, and say, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj, and in the Way of Allah-azwj, and upon religion of Rasool-Allah-saww. O Allah-azwj! Expand for him in his grave, and Join him with his Prophet-saww’, and say like what you say in the Salat one time, and seek Forgiveness for him whatever you can’. He-asws said: ‘And it was so, whenever Ali Bin Al-Husayn-asws entered the deceased into the grave, he-asws stood at his grave, then said: ‘O Allah-azwj! Dry the earth from his sides, and Ascend his deeds, and let him meet Pleasure from You-azwj’’. [62]
Clarification (Hadeeth only) – His-asws words regarding pausing by her husband, it is reported from Amir Al-Momineen-asws having said: ‘He would be foremost of the people with the woman in staying behind with her (after burial)’’. And he said in ‘Al-Muntaha’, the ‘Lahad’ is superior to the cleaving, and it is words of the scholars. It is reported by the audience, from Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet-saww: ‘The ‘Lahad’ is for us and the cleaving is for others’’. It is reported by Al-Kulayni in ‘Al-Saheeh’, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, from one of the two (5th or 6th Imam-asws), he (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘The man closing the eyes of the deceased, upon him is to wash’. He-asws said: ‘When he touches him being with his heat, so no, but when he touches him after his having gone cold, let him wash’ – and he (the narrator) continued the Hadeeth up to he said, ‘I said, ‘The one who carries him, is upon him to wash? ’ He-asws said: ‘No’. I said, ‘The one who enters him into the grave, is the Wud’u upon him? ’ He-asws said: ‘No, except he can perform Wud’u (Tayammum) from soil of the grave if he so desires to’’.