Hadith 115

(The book) ‘Qurb Al Isnaad’ – Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al Fazl Bin Yunus who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan-asws from a man from our companions who dies and not leave behind what could be enshrouded with, ‘Can I buy his shroud for him from the Zakat? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said: ‘Give his dependants from the Zakat a measurement of what they can prepare him with (for the funeral)’. I said, ‘Supposing there does not happen to be a son for him nor anyone who stands with his affairs, can I prepare him from the Zakat? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said: ‘My-asws father-asws, may Allah-azwj be Pleased with him-asws, had said: ‘Sanctity is a nakedness of the Momin, and sanctity of body when he is dead is like his sanctity while he is alive, therefore cover his nakedness, and his body, and his preparation, and his shroud, and his embalmment, and calculate that from the Zakat’. I said, ‘If one of his brothers provided him with another shroud and he had a debt, should he be shrouded with one and the other used to pay his debt? ’
He (the narrator) said, He-asws said: ‘This is not an inheritance that he left behind, rather, it is something that came to them after his death. So, they should shroud him with the one that was provided to them and use what is from the Zakat to settle their matters’’. [196]