كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) بِمَسَائِلَ بَعْضُهَا مَعَ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ وَ بَعْضُهَا مَعَ أَبِي الْعَبَّاسِ فَجَاءَ الْجَوَابُ بِإِمْلَائِهِ سَأَلْتَ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لِلَّهِ عَلَى النَّاسِ حِجُّ الْبَيْتِ مَنِ اسْتَطاعَ إِلَيْهِ سَبِيلًا يَعْنِي بِهِ الْحَجَّ وَ الْعُمْرَةَ جَمِيعاً لِأَنَّهُمَا مَفْرُوضَانِ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ أَتِمُّوا الْحَجَّ وَ الْعُمْرَةَ لِلَّهِ قَالَ يَعْنِي بِتَمَامِهِمَا أَدَاءَهُمَا وَ اتِّقَاءَ مَا يَتَّقِي الْمُحْرِمُ فِيهِمَا وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى الْحَجِّ الْأَكْبَرِ مَا يَعْنِي بِالْحَجِّ الْأَكْبَرِ فَقَالَ الْحَجُّ الْأَكْبَرُ الْوُقُوفُ بِعَرَفَةَ وَ رَمْيُ الْجِمَارِ وَ الْحَجُّ الْأَصْغَرُ الْعُمْرَةُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> with some questions, some of them with Ibn Bukeyrs, and some of them with Abu Al-Abbas. So the answer cam with his<sup>asws</sup> dictation: ‘You asked about the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:3#h97"><a href="/books/quran:3#h97">[3:97]</a></a> and Pilgrimage to the House is incumbent upon the people for the Sake of Allah, (upon) every one who is able to undertake the journey to it</span> – it Means by it the Hajj and the Umra together, because both of these are necessities’. And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:2#h196"><a href="/books/quran:2#h196">[2:196]</a></a> And complete the Hajj and the Umrah for Allah</span>. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It Means by ‘completing’, the fulfilling of them, and abstaining from what the one in Ihram abstains from during these two’. And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the Words of the Exalted <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:9#h3"><a href="/books/quran:9#h3">[9:3]</a></a> the greater Hajj</span>, what is the Meaning of ‘the greater Hajj’?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The greater Hajj is the pausing at Arafat, and pelting the rocks, and the smaller Hajj is the Umra’.
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