Hadith 392
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Hadith.393 - Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Saffar wrote to Imam Hasan ibn Ali Al-Askari (as) asking:
"What is the prescribed amount of water for washing the deceased, as it has been narrated that the
junub (one in a state of major ritual impurity) bathes with six ratls of water and the menstruating woman with nine ratls of water ? Is there a prescribed amount of water for washing the deceased?"
And Imam (as) replied in his own handwriting, saying: "The prescribed washing of the deceased is to continue until they are purified, if Allah (swt), the Exalted, wills."
393 - وَ كَتَبَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ اَلْحَسَنِ اَلصَّفَّارُ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: كَمْ حَدُّ اَلْمَاءِ اَلَّذِي يُغْسَلُ بِهِ اَلْمَيِّتُ كَمَا رَوَوْا أَنَّ اَلْجُنُبَ يَغْتَسِلُ بِسِتَّةِ أَرْطَالٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ وَ اَلْحَائِضَ بِتِسْعَةِ أَرْطَالٍ فَهَلْ لِلْمَيِّتِ حَدٌّ مِنَ اَلْمَاءِ اَلَّذِي يُغْسَلْ بِهِ فَوَقَّعَ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ «حَدُّ غُسْلِ اَلْمَيِّتِ يُغْسَلُ حَتَّى يَطْهُرَ إِنْ شَاءَ اَللَّهُ تَعَالَى.
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