Hadith.2858 - It was narrated from Abu al-Rabi' al-Shami, who said: Abu Abdullah
عليه السلام was asked about the words of Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Exalted: "And [due] to Allah
سبحانه وتعالى from the people is a pilgrimage to the House – for whoever is able to find thereto a way." (Surah Aal-e-Imran
3:97).
Imam
عليه السلام said: "What do people say regarding it?"
It was said to him: "Provision and a mount."
Imam
عليه السلام replied: "Abu Ja'far
عليه السلام was asked about this and said: 'Then the people would perish! If it were such that whoever has provisions and a mount sufficient for his family and enough to make him independent of others must go for Hajj and be stripped of these provisions, then they would perish.'"
Imam
عليه السلام was asked: "Then what is the 'way' (sabeel)?"
Imam
عليه السلام replied: "It is sufficiency in wealth—when one can perform Hajj with part of it while leaving enough to provide for his family. Has not Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Exalted, obligated Zakat and made it incumbent only upon those who possess two hundred dirhams?"