Issue No.510- It is recommended that the Shahadatayn[1] and the acknowledgement of the twelve Imams and other principles of faith should be inculcated to a dying person in way that he understands it. It is also recommended that these things be repeated until the time of death.
Issue No.518- If a person begins performing the abovementioned acts, it is not obligatory for others to participate in them. However, if that person leaves the work half done, others must complete them. And if a person is in doubt whether someone has undertaken the obligations to a dead person, he himself should undertake the responsibility and do them.
Issue No.519-If someone has performed the ghusl, shrouding, death prayer and burial but we are not sure whether or not they have been done correctly, it should be assumed that they been done correctly. However, if we are sure that they have been done incorrectly, we must do them again.
Issue No.544- The obligatory quantity of shroud and the expenses of other obligatory things like ghusl, camphorating and burial should be financed from the estate (his property) and it is not necessary that he should have specified it in his will, and if the deceased has no estate, it should be taken from the baytulmāl.
Issue No.556- As a measure of obligatory precaution, perfumes like musk, ambergris and other perfumes should not be applied to the dead body and should not also be mixed with camphor when camphorating.
Issue No.568- It is makrūh to perform prayer on a dead body a number of times. Rather it is not permissible as an obligatory precaution for to offer the prayer several times. However, if the dead person was a learned and pious one, it is not makrūh to do so.
Issue No.574- It is obligatory to bury a dead body in the ground, deep enough that its smell does not come out and wild animals do not dig it out. However, if there is a danger of such animals digging it out, then the grave should be reinforced with bricks, etc.
Issue No.602- It is not permissible to delay the burial of a dead body if it results in its disrespect and desecration.
Issue No.591- It is not permitted to scratch one’s face or body and hurt oneself for the death of someone. Also, it is not permissible to tear one’s clothes on the death of anyone except on the death of one’s father and brother.
Issue No.593- The obligatory precaution is that while weeping over the death of any person, one’s voice should not be very loud.
Issue No.598- There is no problem in digging up a grave if one is sure that the dead body has decayed and turned into dust. However, digging up the graves of the descendants of the Holy Imams (as), the martyrs, the religious scholars and the pious persons is not allowed even though they may have been buried long ago.
Issue No.600- When the deceased has willed that his body be buried in a certain place, but it is buried elsewhere, it is not permissible to dig up the grave to transfer the dead body to the place he had willed.
