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Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Prayer · Kinds of Clothes in Which It Is Undesirable to Perform Salah (Prayer) As Well As Otherwise · Volume 3, book 4, chapter 60, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ قَالَ سَأَلَ زُرَارَةُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) عَنِ الصَّلاَةِ فِي الثَّعَالِبِ وَالْفَنَكِ وَالسِّنْجَابِ وَغَيْرِهِ مِنَ الْوَبَرِ فَأَخْرَجَ كِتَاباً زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ إِمْلاَءُ رَسُولِ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) أَنَّ الصَّلاَةَ فِي وَبَرِ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ حَرَامٍ أَكْلُهُ فَالصَّلاَةُ فِي وَبَرِهِ وَشَعْرِهِ وَجِلْدِهِ وَبَوْلِهِ وَرَوْثِهِ وَأَلْبَانِهِ وَكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْهُ فَاسِدَةٌ لاَ تُقْبَلُ تِلْكَ الصَّلاَةُ حَتَّى تُصَلِّيَ فِي غَيْرِهِ مِمَّا أَحَلَّ الله أَكْلَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا زُرَارَةُ هَذَا عَنْ رَسُولِ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فَاحْفَظْ ذَلِكَ يَا زُرَارَةُ فَإِنْ كَانَ مِمَّا يُؤْكَلُ لَحْمُهُ فَالصَّلاَةُ فِي وَبَرِهِ وَبَوْلِهِ وَشَعْرِهِ وَرَوْثِهِ وَأَلْبَانِهِ وَكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْهُ جَائِزَةٌ إِذَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّهُ ذَكِيٌّ قَدْ ذَكَّاهُ الذَّبْحُ فَإِنْ كَانَ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا قَدْ نُهِيتَ عَنْ أَكْلِهِ وَحَرُمَ عَلَيْكَ أَكْلُهُ فَالصَّلاَةُ فِي كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْهُ فَاسِدَةٌ ذَكَّاهُ الذَّبْحُ أَوْ لَمْ يُذَكِّهِ.

Published English translation

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from ibn Bukayr who has said the following: “Zurarah once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about foxes, fennec and squirrel and so on of hair. He (the Imam) then took out a book that he (the Imam) thought was of the dictations of the Messenger of Allah and it said, ’Salah (prayer) performed with hair of everything of inedible flesh is unlawful. Thus, Salah (prayer) performed with the fur, hair, skin, urine, dung, milk and with everything from such animals is invalid and unacceptable until one performs with something else which Allah has made of edible flesh.’ He (the Imam) then said, ‘O Zurarah, this is from the Messenger of Allah; preserve it. O Zurarah, if it is from edible animal, performing Salah (prayer) with its fur, urine, hair, dung, milk and everything from it is permissible, if you know that proper slaughtering has taken place, which makes it clean. If it is from something which is not made lawful for you to consume as food but is made unlawful, performing Salah (prayer) with it is invalid, regardless if slaughtered properly or not.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/308)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 314

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