Al-Kafi 6880

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub, from his maternal uncle Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Saeed Al Samman who said, ‘I used to perform Hajj every year. So when it was during a difficult year, the people were hit by hardships. So my companions said to me, ‘If only you would reconsider to what you are intending to perform Hajj of the year with, so giving in charity with it would be superior’. So I said to them, ‘And you are viewing that?’ They said, ‘Yes’. So I gave in charity that year with what I had intended to perform Hajj with, and I stayed (at home)’. So I saw a dream on the night of Arafat, and I said, ‘By Allah^azwj! Neither will I repeat, nor leave the Hajj’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So when it was the next year, I performed Hajj. So when I went over to Mina, I saw Abu Abdullah^asws, and in his^asws presence was a gathering of the people. So I went over to him^asws, and I said to him^asws, ‘Inform me about the man’, and related to him^asws my story, and I said, ‘Which of these two is superior, the Hajj or the charity?’ So he^asws said: ‘How good is the charity’, three times. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Certainly! But which of the two is superior?’ He^asws said: ‘What prevents one of you from performing Hajj and giving charity?’ I said, ‘His wealth does not reach to that, nor can he expand (his expenditure)’. He^asws said: ‘Whenever he intends to spend ten Dirhams regarding something from the causes of the Hajj, spends five and gives in charity with five, or reduces something from his expenditure regarding the Hajj. Thus, he would make, whatever he has withheld regarding the charity, so there would be a Recompense for him with regards to that’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘This, were we to do it, would be straight’. Then he^asws said: ‘And in what way is it similar to Hajj?’ - So he^asws said it three times – ‘The servant goes out from his house, so he gives a chunk, until when he comes to the Sacred Masjid, circumambulates the Obligatory circumambulation, then goes over to the Standing Place of Ibrahim^as, so he Prays two Cycles, so an Angel comes over to him, and it stands upon his left. So when he leaves, strikes with its hand upon his shoulder and it would be saying: ‘O you! As for what has passed, so it has been Forgiven for you, and as for what is in the future, so strive’.

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