Al-Kafi 6886

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws said to me: ‘Ibrahim Bin Maymoun said to me^asws that he was seated in the presence of Abu Haneefa, so a man came over and asked him, ‘What is your view regarding a man who performs the Hajj of Al-Islam, is the Hajj superior or freeing a neck?’ So he said, ‘But, freeing of a neck’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘He lied, by Allah^azwj, and sinned! A Hajj is superior to freeing a neck, and a neck, and a neck. . .’ until he^asws counted ten. Then he^asws said: ‘Woe be unto him! In which neck is a circumambulation with the House (Kabah), and Saee between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa, and the pausing at Arafat, and shaving of the head, and pelting of the rocks?’ Had it been what he said, the people would have suspended the Hajj, and if they had done so, it would have been befitting for the Imam^asws that he^asws forces them upon the Hajj, if they like it and even if they refuse, for this House (Kabah), rather, has been Placed for the Hajj’.

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