Al-Kafi · Hadith 8

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 8

Original Arabic text

8ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ سَأَلَ الْمَاضِيَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) عَنِ الصَّلاَةِ فِي الثَّعَالِبِ فَنَهَى عَنِ الصَّلاَةِ فِيهَا وَفِي الثَّوْبِ الَّذِي يَلِيهَا فَلَمْ أَدْرِ أَيُّ الثَّوْبَيْنِ الَّذِي يَلْصَقُ بِالْوَبَرِ أَوِ الَّذِي يَلْصَقُ بِالْجِلْدِ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) بِخَطِّهِ الَّذِي يَلْصَقُ بِالْجِلْدِ قَالَ وَذَكَرَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) أَنَّهُ سَأَلَهُ عَنْ هَذِهِ الْمَسْأَلَةِ فَقَالَ لاَ تُصَلِّ فِي الثَّوْبِ الَّذِي فَوْقَهُ وَلاَ فِي الَّذِي تَحْتَهُ.

Published English translation

8. Ahmad ibn Idris has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Ali ibn Mahziyar from a man who had has said the following: “He had asked him (the Imam) about performing Salah (prayer) with foxes (things from it) and he (the Imam) prohibited him to perform Salah (prayer) in such things and with the clothes which is the next layer. He (the man) did not know which layer was meant; the one touching the furs or the one touching one’s skin. He (the Imam) wrote with his handwriting that said, ‘It is the one that touches the skin. He (the narrator) has said that he then asked abu al-Hassan that he had asked him (the Imam) about this issue and he (the Imam) had said, ‘Do not perform Salah (prayer) with the clothes which are on its top as well as that which is beneath.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/311)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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