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

1ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا الْمُؤْمِنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ الصَّائِغِ قَالَ قَدِمَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيْهِما السَّلاَم) فَقَالَ قَدِمْتَ حَاجّاً فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ أَ تَدْرِي مَا لِلْحَاجِّ قَالَ لا قَالَ مَنْ قَدِمَ حَاجّاً وَطَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ وَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ كَتَبَ الله لَهُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ حَسَنَةٍ وَمَحَا عَنْهُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ سَيِّئَةٍ وَرَفَعَ لَهُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ دَرَجَةٍ وَشَفَّعَهُ فِي سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ حَاجَةٍ وَكَتَبَ لَهُ عِتْقَ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ رَقَبَةٍ قِيمَةُ كُلِّ رَقَبَةٍ عَشَرَةُ آلافِ دِرْهَمٍ.

1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from al-Hassan ibn Yusuf from Zakariya’ al-Mu’min from Ali ibn Maymun al-Sa‘igh who has said the following: “Once a man came to see Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.), and he (the Imam) asked him, ’Have you come to perform al-Hajj?’ He replied, ‘Yes, I intend to do so. He (the Imam) asked, ‘Do you know what the reward for al-Hajj is?’ He replied, ‘No, I do not know.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘For one who comes to perform al-Hajj, walks seven times around the House, performs two Rak‘at salat (prayer), Allah writes seventy thousand good deeds. He deletes seventy thousand of his sinful deeds, raises for him seventy thousand degrees, accepts his intercession for seventy thousand wishes, and writes for him the reward for setting free seventy thousand slaves, each worth ten thousand dirhams.”’ 

2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عُمَرَ الْيَمَانِيِّ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ كَانَ أَبِي يَقُولُ مَنْ طَافَ بِهَذَا الْبَيْتِ أُسْبُوعاً وَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ فِي أَيِّ جَوَانِبِ الْمَسْجِدِ شَاءَ كَتَبَ الله لَهُ سِتَّةَ آلافِ حَسَنَةٍ وَمَحَا عَنْهُ سِتَّةَ آلافِ سَيِّئَةٍ وَرَفَعَ لَهُ سِتَّةَ آلافِ دَرَجَةٍ وَقَضَى لَهُ سِتَّةَ آلافِ حَاجَةٍ فَمَا عَجَّلَ مِنْهَا فَبِرَحْمَةِ الله وَمَا أَخَّرَ مِنْهَا فَشَوْقاً إِلَى دُعَائِهِ.

2. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from Ibrahim ibn ‘Umar al-Yemaniy from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that my father would say, ‘For one who performs Tawaf around this House seven times and performs two Rak‘at salat (prayer), anywhere in the Masjid al- Haram (the Sacred Masjid), Allah writes for him six thousand good deeds. He deletes six thousand of his sinful deeds, raises for him six thousand degrees and makes his six thousand wishes to come true, of which those earlier are due to Allah’s kindness and those delayed are due to the desire to listen to his prayers.’” 

3ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَمَّنْ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنِ الْعَبْدِ الصَّالِحِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَنَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ مَسَائِلَ كَثِيرَةٍ فَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُهُ عَظُمَ عَلَيَّ كَلامُهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ نَاوِلْنِي يَدَكَ أَوْ رِجْلَكَ أُقَبِّلُهَا فَنَاوَلَنِي يَدَهُ فَقَبَّلْتُهَا فَذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَ رَسُولِ الله (صلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فَدَمَعَتْ عَيْنَايَ فَلَمَّا رَآنِي مُطَأْطِئاً رَأْسِي قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) مَا مِنْ طَائِفٍ يَطُوفُ بِهَذَا الْبَيْتِ حِينَ تَزُولُ الشَّمْسُ حَاسِراً عَنْ رَأْسِهِ حَافِياً يُقَارِبُ بَيْنَ خُطَاهُ وَيَغُضُّ بَصَرَهُ وَيَسْتَلِمُ الْحَجَرَ فِي كُلِّ طَوَافٍ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يُؤْذِيَ أَحَداً وَلا يَقْطَعُ ذِكْرَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَنْ لِسَانِهِ إِلاَّ كَتَبَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ حَسَنَةٍ وَمَحَا عَنْهُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ سَيِّئَةٍ وَرَفَعَ لَهُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ دَرَجَةٍ وَأَعْتَقَ عَنْهُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ رَقَبَةٍ ثَمَنُ كُلِّ رَقَبَةٍ عَشَرَةُ آلافِ دِرْهَمٍ وَشُفِّعَ فِي سَبْعِينَ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَقُضِيَتْ لَهُ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ حَاجَةٍ إِنْ شَاءَ فَعَاجِلَهُ وَإِنْ شَاءَ فَآجِلَهُ.

3. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from those who he has mentioned as having said the following: “I once visited the virtuous servant of Allah to ask him a great many questions. When I saw him, his words impressed me a great deal. I requested him to allow me to hold his hand or his foot to kiss. He allowed me to hold his hand, I kissed his hand and at this time I remembered the words of the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, and my eyes flooded with tears. When he saw me bending my head down, he said that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has spoken of the following great facts: ‘Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, writes for each step seventy thousand good deeds for those who perform Tawaf around this House. If one performs it when the sun declines toward the west, without any covering on his head, barefoot, walking in small steps, casting one’s eyes down, touching the Black Stone each time one passes by without disappointing anyone, and does not discontinue speaking of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, He deletes seventy thousand of his sinful deeds, raises seventy thousand degrees, sets free seventy thousand slaves on his behalf, each costing ten thousand dirhams, accepts his intercession for seventy people of his family, and makes seventy thousand of his wishes to come true early, if He so wishes or later if He so wishes.’” 

Al-Kāfi - Volume 4

Book 3, Chapter 125