3. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from ‘Asim al-Kuzi who has said the following: “I once heard Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, narrating from his father that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم offered ‘Aqiqah for al-Hassan عليه السلام. It was a ram and one ram for al-Husayn عليه السلام. He (the Messenger of Allah) gave something to al-Qabilah (the special nurse), shaved their heads on the seventh day, weighed their hairs and equal to its weight gave in charity.’ He (the narrator) has said, ‘I asked him (the Imam), ‘Is blood taken to stain the head of the child?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘That is shirk (considering things partners of Allah), a practice of pagans.’ I then said, ‘Allah is free of all defects. Is it shirk?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘If it is not shirk it certainly was a practice in the time of ignorance and Islam has prohibited it.’”