Al-Kafi · Hadith 9

The Book of Taharat (Cleansing) · Clothes Come in Contact with Blood and Pus · Volume 3, book 1, chapter 38, Hadith 9

Original Arabic text

9ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الرَّيَّانِ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) هَلْ يَجْرِي دَمُ الْبَقِّ مَجْرَى دَمِ الْبَرَاغِيثِ وَهَلْ يَجُوزُ لأَحَدٍ أَنْ يَقِيسَ بِدَمِ الْبَقِّ عَلَى الْبَرَاغِيثِ فَيُصَلِّيَ فِيهِ وَأَنْ يَقِيسَ عَلَى نَحْوِ هَذَا فَيَعْمَلَ بِهِ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) يَجُوزُ الصَّلاَةُ وَالطُّهْرُ مِنْهُ أَفْضَلُ.

Published English translation

9. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Muhammad ibn al-Rayyan who has said the following: “I once wrote to the man (a.s.), asking, ‘Is the blood of bugs like the blood of fleas? Is it permissible for one to consider blood of bugs like that of fleas, perform Salah (prayer) with it and analogize to act upon such analogy?’ He (the Imam) wrote with his signature, ‘It is permissible to perform Salah (prayer) with it, but washing is better.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/168)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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