مَرَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) عَلَى كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ وَ الْقَمْلُ يَتَنَاثَرُ مِنْ رَأْسِهِ وَ هُوَ مُحْرِمٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَ تُؤْذِيكَ هَوَامُّكَ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فَأُنْزِلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فَمَنْ كانَ مِنْكُمْ مَرِيضاً أَوْ بِهِ أَذىً مِنْ رَأْسِهِ فَفِدْيَةٌ مِنْ صِيامٍ أَوْ صَدَقَةٍ أَوْ نُسُكٍ فَأَمَرَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَنْ يَحْلِقَ وَ جَعَلَ الصِّيَامَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ وَ الصَّدَقَةَ عَلَى سِتَّةِ مَسَاكِينَ لِكُلِّ مِسْكِينٍ مُدَّيْنِ وَ النُّسُكَ شَاةً قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْ فَصَاحِبُهُ بِالْخِيَارِ يَخْتَارُ مَا شَاءَ وَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَمَنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ كَذَا فَعَلَيْهِ كَذَا فَالْأُولَى الْخِيَارُ .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from the one who informed him, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> passed by Ka’ab Bin Ujra and lice was scattering from his head, and he was in <span class="iTxt">Ihraam</span>. So he<sup>saww</sup> said to him: ‘Your vermins are harming you?’ So he said, ‘Yes’. So this Verse was Revealed <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:2#h196"><a href="/books/quran:2#h196">[2:196]</a></a> but whoever among you is sick or has an ailment of the head, he (should effect) a compensation by Fasting or alms or sacrificing</span>. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> ordered him that he should shave off his head and make the Fasting to be for three days, and to give charity upon six poor ones, for each poor one being two Mudds (750 gms x 2), and sacrifice a sheep’. Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And everything is from the Quran, or its doer is with the choice, he can choose whatever he so desires to; and everything from the Quran, ‘so the one who cannot find such and such, so upon him is such and such’, so he would have preference with the choice’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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