Virtue of Charity

Giving Charity Repels Misfortune

The Virtue of Giving Charity Out of Public Sight

Giving Charity During the Night

Giving Charity Increases One’s Wealth

Giving Charity to Relatives

Providing for the Family to Improve the Quality of Their Lives

One’s Dependents

Giving Charity to Those Whom One Does Not Know

Giving Charity to Bedouins and People Who Live in Desolate Areas

Undesirability of Turning Away One Asking for Help

The Amount of Charity for One Asking for Help

The Prayer of the Recipient of Charity

One Who Distributes Charity Has a Share in Rewards with the Donor of Charity

Self-Abnegation (Giving Preference to Others Over One’s Self)

One Who Asks for Help Without Actually Needing Help

Unpleasantness of Begging

Embarrassing the Recipient of a Favor

Giving Charity After an Appeal From a Recipient

Benevolent Assistance (Optional Charity as Opposed to Compulsory Ones)

The Virtue of Benevolent Assistance

Another Chapter about the Subject of the Previous Chapter

Providing Benevolent Assistance Repels Wicked Encounters

Providers of Benevolent Assistance Will be Identified as Such on the Day of Judgment

Completion of Benevolent Assistance

Finding a Proper Recipient of Benevolent Assistance

Disciplines for Providing Benevolent Assistance

Refusing to Appreciate a Benevolent Assistance

Providing a Loan

Extending Due Date of Payment in Favor of the Borrower

Waiving a Loan in Favor of a Dead Person

The Cost of Maintenance of Wealth

Appreciation of Bounties

Understanding Generosity and Munificence

Spending on Deserving Causes

Stinginess and Greed

Rare Ahadith about Charity

Virtue of Serving Food

The Excellence of Moderation

Detestability of Over-Spending and Living in Austerity

Providing Water for Drinking

Charity for Descendents of al-Hashim and the People of Their Household (Servants) and Compensation to Them

The Rare Ahadith

The Excellence of Fast and Fasting

The Excellence of the Month of Ramadan

About the One Who Serves Food to a Fasting Person

Prohibition of Saying ‘Ramadan’ Instead of the ‘Month of Ramadan’

The Words to Say When the Month of Ramadan is About to Begin

Verifying the Rise of the New Moon and Finding Witnesses for It

Another Chapter about the Previous Subject

The Day That Is Doubtful About Its Being of the Month of Sha‘ban or the Month of Ramadan

Kinds of Fasts

Disciplines During Fasting

The Fasting of the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause

Excellence of Fasting in the Month of Shaman, Continuing Such Fast to Connect it with the Month of Ramadan, and Three Days of Fasting Every Month

Breakfast before Dawn

The Prayer to Say During Breakfast after Sunset

Fasting Continuously and All the Time

The Case of One Who Eats or Drinks but Has Doubts About Its Taking Place before or after Dawn

What Is Dawn, When Does It Come and When Is It Unlawful to Eat?

The Case of One Who Eats, Thinking it to Be after Sunset, when It Is Not yet Sunset

The Time of Breaking Fast after Sunset

The Case of One who Eats or Drinks out of Forgetfulness During the Month of Ramadan

The Case of One Who Knowingly Eats or Is Involved in Carnal Relation During the Month of Ramadan

The Case of a Person Involved in Carnal Relations in the Form of Kissing or Foreplay

The Case of One Who Experiences a Wet-Dream During the Night in the Month of Ramadan or at Other Times and Does Not Shower before Dawn or It Occurs During the Night or Day

The Undesirability of Immersing One’s Head in Water while Fasting

Rinsing One’s Mouth and Nostrils while Fasting

The Case of a Fasting Person’s Vomiting, Nauseating or Burping

The Case of a Fasting Person’s Use of Bath Room and Apply Cupping

The Case of a Fasting Person’s Sniffling or Use of Eardrops or Enema

The Case of a Fasting Person’s Use of Kohl (Eye Drops or powder)

A Fasting Person’s Use of Tooth Brush

A Fasting Person’s Use of Perfumes

A Fasting Person’s Use of Chewing Gum

The Case of a Fasting Person Tasting the Salt in Cooking Pot and Chews for the Fledgling

The Case of a Fly or Mucus Entering the Throat of a Fasting Person

The Case of a Fasting Person’s Keeping a Ring, a Pebble or a Date Stone in His Mouth while Fasting

The Case of Seniors Who Feel Weak when Fasting

The Case of a Pregnant or Breastfeeding Woman Who Feels Weak when Fasting

The Limit of Illness That Exempts One from Fasting

The Case of One Who Remains Ill for Two Consecutive Months of Ramadan

Remedy and Compensatory Fast for the Missed Fasting During the Month of Ramadan

The Case of One Who Wakes up in the Morning with an Intention to Fast, but Who Does Not Do So or Vice Versa when Fasting Is a Compensatory Fast for the Missed Fast in the Month of Ramadan or Other Days

The Case of One Who Fasts Optionally while He Is Obligated to Make Up for Fasting of the Month of Ramadan He Has Missed

The Case of a Person Who Passes Away Owing Fasting of the Month of Ramadan or Other Times

Children’s Fasting and When They Owe Fasting

The Case of One Who Becomes a Muslim during the Month of Ramadan

Undesirability of Traveling in the Month of Ramadan

Undesirability (unlawfulness) of Fast on a Journey

The Case of One Who Fasts on a Journey out of Ignorance

Those Who Do or Do Not Have to Break Their Fast on a Journey 

Optional Fasting on a Journey and Qada’ (compensatory fast) of Fasting Missed on a Journey

The Case of One Who Begins a Journey or Returns from a Journey in the Month of Ramadan

The Case of a Traveler Who Enters His Town or a Place where He Wants to Stay for Ten Days

The Case of One Who Involves Himself in Carnal Relations with His Wife on a Journey or Returns from a Journey in the Month of Ramadan

The Case of Fasting during Menses: Major or Minor One

The Case of One Who Owes Fasting of Two Consecutive Months but an Obstacle Prevents Him 

Fasting As Expiation for Swearing

 علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن معاوية بن عمار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: خذحصى الجمار ثم ائت الجمرة القصوى التي عندالعقبة فارمها من قبل وجهها ولا ترمها من أعلاها وتقول والحصى في يدك: " اللهم هؤلاء حصياتي فاحصهن لي و ارفعهن في عملي " ثم ترمي وتقول مع كل حصاة: " الله أكبر، اللهم ادحر عني الشيطان اللهم تصديقا بكتابك وعلى سنة نبيك صلى الله عليه وآله، اللهم اجعله حجا مبرورا وعملا مقبولا وسعيا مشكورا وذنبا مغفورا " وليكن فيما بينك وبين الجمرة قدر عشرة أذرع أو خمسة عشر ذراعا فإذا أتيت رحلك ورجعت من الرمي فقل: " اللهم بك وثقت وعليك توكلت فنعم الرب ونعم المولى ونعم النصير ". قال: ويستحب أن يرمى الجمار على طهر.

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “Abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that you can take the pebbles for al-Jamar and go to al- Jamarah al-Quswa’ which is near al-‘ Aqabah. Throw the pebbles on it from its front side and not from above, and when throwing pebbles say, ‘O Allah, these are my pebbles, count them for me and raise them in my deeds.’ Then commence throwing and with each pebble say, ‘Takbir (Allah is great beyond description). O Allah, keep away Satan from me. O Allah, it is to verify Your book and the Sunnah (tradition) of Your Holy Prophet. O Allah, make it a virtuous al-Hajj, an acceptable deed, an appreciated effort, and forgiven sins.’ Keep a distance of ten yards between yourself and al-Jamarah (the pillar) or fifteen yards. When you return from al-Jamarah say, ‘O Allah, I depend on You, take You as my attorney; You are the best Lord, the best Guardian and the best helper.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is preferable to throw the pebbles with a valid Wudu’.’” NOTE: When throwing pebbles one should say the prayers mentioned above. 

محمدبن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن علي بن حديد، عن جميل بن دراج، عن زرارة عن أحدهما عليهما السلام قال: سألته عن رمي الجمرة يوم النحر مالها ترمى وحدها ولا ترمى من الجمار غيرها يوم النحر؟ فقال: قدكن يرمين كلهن ولكنهم تركوا ذلك، فقلت له: جعلت فداك فأرميهن؟ قال: لا ترمهن أما ترضى أن تصنع مثل ما نصنع.

2. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Hadid from Jamil ibn Darraj from Zurarah who has said the following: “I once asked one of the two Imam, (abu Ja’far or abu ‘Abd Allah) (a.s.), about throwing pebbles on the day of al-Nahr (slaughtering the offering) and about why it is only one and why other al-Jamar are not pelted with pebbles on the day of al-Nahr. He (the Imam) said, ‘They used to throw pebbles on them but they stopped it.’ I then said, ‘I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause, can I then throw pebbles on them all?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You must not throw pebbles on them all. Do you not like to do what we do?”’ 

محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن ابن فضال، عن ابن بكير، عن زرارة، عن حمران قال: سألت أبا جعفر عليه السلام عن رمي الجمار فقال: كن يرمين جميعا يوم النحر، فرميتها جميعا بعد ذلك، ثم حدثته فقال لي: أماترضى أن تصنع كما كان علي عليه السلام يصنع؟ فتركته.

3. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Faddal from ibn Bukayr from Zurarah from Humran who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja’far (a.s.), about throwing pebbles on al-Jamar. He (the Imam) said, ‘Pebbles were thrown on all of them on the day of al-Nahr (slaughtering the offering, 10th of Dhu al- Hajj ah).’ Thereafter I would throw pebbles on all of them and then I mentioned it to him (the Imam) and he said, ‘Will you not be happy to do as Ali (a.s.), would do?’ I then abandoned it (throwing pebbles on all of them).”’ 

علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن جميل، عن زرارة، عن أحدهما عليهما السلام، وعن ابن اذينة، عن ابن بكير قال: كانت الجمار ترمى جميعا، قلت: فأرميها؟ فقال: لا أماترضى أن تصنع كما أصنع.

4. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Jamil from Zurarah and from ‘ibn ‘Udhaynah from ibn Bukayr who has said the following: “One of the two Imam, (abu Ja’far or abu ‘Abd Allah), ‘Alayhim al-Salam, has said, ‘Pebbles were thrown on all of them.’ I then asked, ‘Can I throw on all of them?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘No, do you not like to do as I do?”’ 

عدة من أصحابنا، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن محمد بن سنان، عن ابن مسكان، عن سعيد الرومي قال: رمى أبوعبدالله عليه السلام الجمرة العظمى فرأى الناس وقوفا فقام وسطهم ثم نادى بأعلى صوته: أيها الناس إن هذا ليس بموقف - ثلاث مرات - ففعلت.

5. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Sinan from ibn Muskan from Sa‘id al- Rumiy who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), threw pebbles on al-Jamarah al-‘Uzma’ and saw people standing. He (the Imam) stood in their middle and announced with the height of his voice, ‘O people, this is not a station’, three times, and I did it (as he (the Imam) had done).” 

محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن الحسن بن محبوب، عن علي بن رئاب، عن محمد بن قيس، عن أبي جعفرعليه السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله لرجل من الانصار: إذا رميت الجمار كان لك بكل حصاة عشر حسنات تكتب لك لما تستقبل من عمرك.

6. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn Ri’ab from Muhammad ibn Qays who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far (a.s.), has said that the Messenger of Allah (sw), said to a man from al-Ansar, For every pebble you throw on al-Jamar, ten good deeds will be written for you (every year) for the rest of your life.’ 

عدة من أصحابنا، عن أحمد بن محمد بن أبي عبدالله، عن أبيه، عن حماد، عن حريز، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام في رمي الجمار قال: له بكل حصاة يرمي به تحط عنه كبيرة موبقة.

7. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from his father from Hammad from Hariz who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that with every pebble that one throws on al-Jamar, one major destructive sin is deleted.” 

Al-Kāfi - Volume 4

Book 3, Chapter 173