Al-Kāfi - Volume 3
Causes of Death and that Believing People May Die by any Manner of Dying
10 hadiths
The Reward for a Person Suffering from Illness
10 hadiths
Another Section on the Same Subject
6 hadiths
The Limits of Complaints
1 hadiths
A Patient’s Giving Permission to His Visitors
3 hadiths
How Often a Patient Should Be Visited, How Long the Duration of Visitation Should Be and Complete Visit
6 hadiths
The Limit of a Sudden Death
2 hadiths
The Virtue (Reward) of Visiting a Patient
10 hadiths
Dictations to a Dying Person
10 hadiths
Difficulty in Dying (If Dying Becomes Difficult and the Agony of Death Intense)
5 hadiths
Facing the Dying Person Toward Qiblah
3 hadiths
A Believing Person Is Not Caused to Die Against His Will
2 hadiths
Things that Believers and Unbelievers See in Dying Conditions
16 hadiths
Taking out of the Souls of Believing and Unbelievers
3 hadiths
Burial Should Take Place Immediately
2 hadiths
Rare Ahadith
1 hadiths
Women during Hayd Nurse a Patient (The following chapters are about rules of washing a dead body for burial, shrouding and other matters of burial, and are best explained in the form of fatwa. Consult current fatwa about them.)
1 hadiths
Washing a Dead Body
6 hadiths
Hunut (Rubbing Camphor) on a Dead Body and Shrouding
16 hadiths
Shrouding a Deceased Women
3 hadiths
Undesirability of Perfuming the Shroud or Warming Water for Washing Dead Bodies
4 hadiths
The Desirable Pieces of Shroud and the Undesirable Ones
12 hadiths
The Amount of Water Needed for Ghusl (bath) of a Deceased Person
5 hadiths
The Two Fresh Al-Jaridah (Twigs of Palm Tree)
12 hadiths
Persons Dead Without Shower Due to Carnal Relations Hayd or Child Birth Reasons
3 hadiths
Chapter 26- Dead Woman with a Baby Moving Inside Her
3 hadiths
Cutting of Nails and Hairs of Dead Person Undesirable
4 hadiths
Things Coming Out of a Dead Body after Ghusl (bath)
3 hadiths
Washing of Persons of opposite Gender
13 hadiths
The Age of Children during Which Women Can Wash Their Bodies
1 hadiths
The Ghusl (bath) Necessary for Touching a Dead Body and Washing or Touching When the Body Is Still Warm or Has Become Cold
8 hadiths
Reason behind Washing a Dead Body for Burial and After Sexual Activities
3 hadiths
The Reward for Washing a Believer for Burial
4 hadiths
The Reward for Shrouding the Body of a Believing Person
1 hadiths
The Reward for One who Prepares the Grave for a Believing Person
1 hadiths
The Required Depth of a Grave, the form of the Grave and Prepared Lahad for the Messenger of Allah
4 hadiths
Informing People to Attend a Funeral Service
3 hadiths
Expressions to Pronounce on Seeing a Dead Person
3 hadiths
The Sunnah to Carry a Dead Body
4 hadiths
Walking Along with Procession for the Dead Body
7 hadiths
It Is Not Desirable to Ride in Funeral Procession
2 hadiths
One Who Joins a Funeral Procession and then Returns
3 hadiths
The Reward for Walking in a Funeral Procession
8 hadiths
The Reward for Lifting up the Coffin of a Dead Body
3 hadiths
The Dead Bodies of Men, Women, Children and Slaves (For such Ahadith about an act or issue of the five categories of deeds of the quality of Wujub (Obligatory), Hurmat (Prohibited), Istihbab (Preference), Kirahat (Detestability) or Ibahah (Permissibility) one must consult fatwas of one’s Mujtahid.)
6 hadiths
Rare Ahadith
3 hadiths
The Place Where the Person Performing Salah (Prayer) for a DeadBody Stands
2 hadiths
The Most Preferred Person to Perform Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person
5 hadiths
Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person without Wudu’
5 hadiths
Women’s Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person
5 hadiths
The Time of Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person
2 hadiths
Reason for Five Takbir in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person
5 hadiths
Salah (Prayer) for a Person in a Masjid
1 hadiths
Salah (Prayer) for a Believer’s Dead Body, Takbir and Du’a
6 hadiths
There is No Particular Du’a or Salam in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Body
3 hadiths
Saying More Than Five Takbir in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person
3 hadiths
Salah (Prayer) For a Person of Weak Understanding of Faith and One Who Does Not Know the Truth
6 hadiths
Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person Hostile to ’A’immah
7 hadiths
Arrival of Another Dead Body During Salah (Prayer) for One Already There
1 hadiths
Placing the Dead Body in front of the Grave
2 hadiths
Rare Ahadith
2 hadiths
Entering and Coming out of the Grave
5 hadiths
People Who Should and Those Who Should Not Enter a Grave
8 hadiths
Preparation for Placing a Deceased in the Grave
11 hadiths
Preparing Lahad and the Materials Needed (Ch. 64 is best explained by fatwa.)
2 hadiths
Who Should Fill Soil in the Grave and How
5 hadiths
Preparing Four Corners of the Grave and Sprinkling Water on It
11 hadiths
Using Clay or Lime over the Grave
4 hadiths
The Soil Where a Person Is Buried
2 hadiths
Condolences and the Obligations of the People of the Deceased
10 hadiths
The Reward for One Who Offers Condolences to a Saddened Person
2 hadiths
A Woman Dies with Baby Moving Inside (The following chapters are best explained by fatwa, please consult fatwa.)
2 hadiths
Ghusl (bath) for Children and Salah (Prayer) for Them
8 hadiths
People Drowned or Struck Dead
6 hadiths
People Killed
5 hadiths
People Consumed By Beasts, Birds, Pieces of Bodies of Those Killed or Burnt
7 hadiths
People Who Die in Ships and Cannot Be Brought Ashore or Are Naked
4 hadiths
Salah (Prayer) for Persons Crucified, Stoned or Dead for Capital Punishment
3 hadiths
The Obligations of the Neighbors toward the People of the Deceased and Mourning Ceremonies
6 hadiths
Suffering Due to the Death of a Son
10 hadiths
Offering Condolences and Solace
8 hadiths
Patience, Impatience and to Acknowledge (the Reality of) Death
14 hadiths
The Reward for offering Condolences
4 hadiths
About offering Solace
3 hadiths
Visiting of the Graves
10 hadiths
Dead People Visit Their Families
5 hadiths
A Dying Person Observes His Properties, Children and Deeds Just Before His Death
4 hadiths
Interrogations in the Grave - Who Is Interrogated and Who Is Not
18 hadiths
The Statements that Graves Make Every Day
3 hadiths
About the Spirits (Souls) of the Believers
2 hadiths
Another one of the Chapters about the Souls of the Believing People
7 hadiths
About the Souls (spirits) of the Unbelievers
5 hadiths
Worldly Garden
2 hadiths
The Children
7 hadiths
The Rare Ahadith
46 hadiths