سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ حَدِّ الطَّوَافِ بِالْبَيْتِ الَّذِي مَنْ خَرَجَ مِنْهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ طَائِفاً بِالْبَيْتِ قَالَ كَانَ النَّاسُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يَطُوفُونَ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ الْمَقَامِ وَ أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ تَطُوفُونَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَقَامِ وَ بَيْنَ الْبَيْتِ فَكَانَ الْحَدُّ مَوْضِعَ الْمَقَامِ الْيَوْمَ فَمَنْ جَازَهُ فَلَيْسَ بِطَائِفٍ وَ الْحَدُّ قَبْلَ الْيَوْمِ وَ الْيَوْمَ وَاحِدٌ قَدْرَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَقَامِ وَ بَيْنَ الْبَيْتِ مِنْ نَوَاحِي الْبَيْتِ كُلِّهَا فَمَنْ طَافَ فَتَبَاعَدَ مِنْ نَوَاحِيهِ أَبْعَدَ مِنْ مِقْدَارِ ذَلِكَ كَانَ طَائِفاً بِغَيْرِ الْبَيْتِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ مَنْ طَافَ بِالْمَسْجِدِ لِأَنَّهُ طَافَ فِي غَيْرِ حَدٍّ وَ لَا طَوَافَ لَهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, and someone else from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yaseen Al Zareyr, from Hareyz Bin Abdullah, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the boundary of the <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> by the House (Kaaba), which, if one were to go out from it, would not happen to be a circumambulator of the House (Kaaba). He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It was so that the people in the era of Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> were performing <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> by the House (Kaaba) and the Standing Place (of Ibrahim<sup>as</sup>, and you all today are performing <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> what is between the Standing Place (of Ibrahim<sup>as</sup>) and the House (Kaaba). So, the boundary today is the place of the Standing Place (of Ibrahim<sup>as</sup>). Therefore the one who exceeds it, so he is not with the <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span>. And the boundary before today, and today, is one, measured by what is between the Standing Place (of Ibrahim<sup>as</sup>) and the House (Kaaba) from the surrounding of the House (Kaaba), all of it. Thus, the one who performs <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> remotely from its surrounding area, further from that measurement, would be circumambulating by other than the House, being at the status of the one who performs <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> by the Masjid, because he would be performing <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> in another boundary, and there is no <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> for him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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