Al-Kafi 4193

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and a number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, altogether from Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Khalaf Bin Hammad, and reported by Ahmad as well, from Muhammad Bin Aslam, from Khalaf Bin Hammad Al Kufy who said, ‘One of our companions got married to a young girl who had yet to menstruate. So when he deflowered her, the blood flowed, and it remained flowing, not getting cut off for about ten days. So he showed her to the midwives and the ones from the women he thought had that insight. But they differed. So some of them said, ‘This is from the blood of menstruation (<span class="iTxt">Haydh</span>)’, and some said, ‘It is from the blood of virginity’. So he asked their jurists like Abu Haneefa and others from the jurists, and they said, ‘This is something which has confusion, and the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> is a necessity, an Obligation. So let her perform ablution, and let her pray <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>, and let her husband abstain from her until she sees the whiteness (no blood). So if it was the blood of menstruation (<span class="iTxt">Haydh</span>), the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> would not harm her, and if it was the blood of the virginity, she would have fulfilled the Obligation’. So the girl did that, and I performed Hajj during that year. So when we came to be at Mina, I sent a message to Abu Al-Hassan Musa^asws Bin Ja’far^asws, saying, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! There is a problem for us which we have been straitened with and are fed up with it. So if you^asws see fit to permit me so I can come over to see you^asws and ask you^asws about it’. So he^asws sent a message over to me: ‘When the man (people) subside and the road is cut off (blocked by someone), so you can come over, Allah^azwj Willing’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I stayed behind and saw the night until when I saw the people had lessened, I stayed behind at Mina to go to his^asws tent. So when I was near, I saw a black man seated upon the road (blocking it). So he said, ‘Who is the man (coming over)?’ So I said, ‘A man from the Pilgrims’. So he said, ‘What is your name?’ I said, ‘Khalaf Bin Hammad’. He said, ‘Enter without a permission, for he^asws had ordered me that I should be seated over here, and whenever you come over, so I should permit for you (to enter the tent)’. So I entered and greeted, and he^asws returned the greetings, and he^asws was seated upon his^asws carpet, alone, there being no one else in the tent. So when I came to be in front of him^asws, he^asws asked me and I asked him^asws about his^asws state, and I said to him^asws, ‘A man from the ones in your^asws Wilayah married a young girl who had yet to menstruate. So when he deflowered her, the blood flowed and remained flowing, not being cut off, for about ten days, and the midwives differed with regards to that. So some of them said it is the blood of menstruation (<span class="iTxt">Haydh</span>), and some of them said it is the blood of virginity. So what is befitting for her to do?’ He^asws said: ‘So let her fear Allah^azwj, for it was from the blood of menstruation (<span class="iTxt">Haydh</span>), so let her abstain from the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> until she sees the purity, and let her husband abstain from her; and if it was from the blood of virginity, so let her fear Allah^azwj, and let her perform ablution, and let her pray <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>, and her husband can come to her if he likes that’. So I said to him^asws, ‘So how is it for them to know what it is from until they do what is befitting?’ So he^asws looked towards the right and left in the tent, fearing that someone might hear his^asws speech, then he^asws diverted towards me and he^asws said: ‘O Khalaf! A secret of Allah^azwj! A secret of Allah^azwj! Therefore, neither waste it nor teach it to these people, the Principles of the Religion. But, be pleased for them what Allah^azwj is Pleased for them, from the straying’. He (the narrator) said: ‘Then he^asws he formed the (number) ninety with his^asws left hand, then said: ‘She should insert the cotton, then leave it for a while. Then she should take it out with a gentle extraction. So if it was an encircled blood in the cotton, so it is from the virginity, and if it was a splodge in the cotton, so it is from the menstruation (<span class="iTxt">Haydh</span>)’. Khalaf said, ‘I was overcome with the happiness, and I cried. So when my crying settled, he^asws said: ‘What made you cry?’ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! Who can be better at this than you^asws?’ So he^asws raised his^asws hand towards the sky and said: ‘By Allah^azwj! I^asws did not inform you except from Rasool-Allah^saww, from Jibraeel^as, from Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

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