مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ١٢٤ - THE METHOD OF BATHING A DEAD BODY

by his doing so the bathing does not become void.
٥٧٠. If some part of the corpse is impure it should, on the basis of precaution, be washed and purified before actual bathing commences. And it is better thatbefore the corpse is bathed it should be clean and free from all other impurities.
٥٧١. Bathing of a dead body is the same as the bathing for ceremonial uncleanness (Janabat). And the obligatory precaution is that so long as sequence bath ispossible the dead body should not be bathed in immersion way. And even in the case of sequence bath it is necessary that the body should be bathed from the right side to theleft side. And the recommended precaution is that, if possible, none of the three parts of the body should be immersed in the water and instead of doing so water should bepoured on the dead body.
٥٧٢. If someone dies in the state of menses or ceremonial uncleanness it is sufficient to give him/her the bath of the corpse and bathing on account of menstruationor ceremonial uncleanness is not necessary.
٥٧٣. It is unlawful to charge wages for bathing a dead body and if a person bathes a dead body to get wages the bathing would be void. However, it is not unlawfulto take wages for preliminary requirements of the performance of the bathing.
٥٧٤. Jabira bathing is not permissible in the case of bathing of dead body and if water is not available or there is some other valid excuse for abstaining fromgiving bath the dead body should be made to perform tayammum for each bathing, and the obligatory precaution is that it should be made to perform another tayammum also inlieu of ٣ bathings. And in case the person who is making the dead body perform the tayammums, determines in connection with one of the tayammums that he is doing this act todischarge the religious obligation (ma-fiz- zimmah) the ٤th tayammum would not be necessary.
٥٧٥. The person who is making the dead body perform