مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ١٢١ - ORDERS REGARDING ACTS TO BE PERFORMED WITH REGARD TO A DEAD PERSON

But if none dischargesthese obligations all those who know it shall be sinners.
٥٤٩. If a person begins performing the acts relating to the dead body it is not obligatory for others to participate in them. In case, however, that person leavesthese acts incomplete others shoUld complete them.
٥٥٠. If a person is certain that another person is busy looking after the jobs relating to the dead body it is not obligatory for him to take steps in this behalf.However, if he doubts or suspects he should take necessary steps.
٥٥١. If a person is certain that the bathing. shrouding, prayers for or burial of a dead body has been performed wrongly he should perform these acts again. Incase, however, he is only suspicious about their validity or. doubts whether they have been performed properly it is not necessary for him to take any action in the matter.
٥٥٢. On the basis of precaution permission shoUld be taken from the guardian of a dead body for its bathing, shrouding, performing prayers and burial.
٥٥٣. The guardian of a woman is her husband. And after him the men who inherit from the dead person enjoy precedence over their women.
٥٥٤. If a person says that he is the guardian of the dead body, o that the guardian of the dead body has given him permission to carry out its bathing, shroudingand burial, or he says that he is the executor of the dead body in the matter of its equipment, and if what he says is relied upon, or the dead body is in his possession, ortwo just (Adil) persons and even one reliable person testify to his statement, his word should be accepted.
٥٥٥. If a dead person appoints some one other than his guardian to carry out his bathing, shrouding, burial and prayers the guardianship with regard to thesematters rests with that person.