Recommended Acts After Death
Issue No.515- It is recommended that the mouth and eyes of the deceased be shut, the chin be pushed up, hands and feet be straightened and to spread a cloth over the body, and inform the believers to join the tashyī‘ (i.e., escort of the body to the grave), and to not turn the dead body away from the direction of qiblah as long as the body is in the place of death and to hasten the burial. However, if, they are not sure of his/her death, they should wait until they are certain.
