Al-Kafi 7107

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from one of our companions, from Ali Bin Muhammad Al Ash’as, from Ali Bin Ibrahim Al Hazramy, from his father who said, ‘I returned from Makkah, so I met Abu Al-Hassan Musa^asws in the Masjid, and he^asws was seated in what is between the grave and the Pulpit (of Rasool-Allah^saww). So I said, ‘O son^asws of Rasool-Allah^saww! When I go out to Makkah, sometimes the man says to me, ‘Circumambulate on my behalf, seven (circuits), and Pray two Cycles’. But, I am too pre-occupied from that, so when I return, I do not know what I should be saying to him’. He^asws said: ‘When you go to Makkah, so fulfil your rituals, circumambulate seven (circuits) and Pray two Cycles, then say, ‘O Allah^azwj! This circumambulation, and these two Cycles (of Prayer) are no behalf of my father and my mother, and on behalf of my wife, and on behalf of my children, and of behalf of my protectors, and on behalf of the entirety of the people of my city, their free ones, and their slaves, and their white ones, and their black ones’. So you would not be saying to the man, ‘I have performed a circumambulation on your behalf, and Prayed two Cycles on your behalf’, except that you would be truthful (in saying that). So when you go to the grave of the Prophet^saww, fulfil what is Obligatory upon you. Pray two Cycles, then pause by the head of the Prophet^saww, then say, ‘Greetings be upon you^saww, O Prophet^saww of Allah^azwj, from my father and my mother, and my wife, and my children, and the entirety of the people of my city, their free ones, and they slaves, and their white ones, and their black ones’. So you would not be saying to the man, ‘I conveyed the greetings to Rasool-Allah^saww’, except that you would be truthful (in saying that)’.

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