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Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

Chapters on Legal Cases and Rulings

Chapter on Guarantee

261. hadíth

3401 - وَ قَالَ اَلصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ لِأَبِي اَلْعَبَّاسِ اَلْفَضْلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَلْمَلِكِ "مَا مَنَعَكَ مِنَ اَلْحَجِّ" قَالَ كَفَالَةٌ تَكَفَّلْتُ بِهَا قَالَ "مَا لَكَ وَ لِلْكَفَالاَتِ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ اَلْكَفَالَةَ هِيَ اَلَّتِي أَهْلَكَتِ اَلْقُرُونَ اَلْأُولَى ".

Hadith.3401 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said to Abu al-Abbas al-Fadl ibn Abd al-Malik: "What has prevented you from performing Hajj?" He replied: "A guarantee (kafalah) that I undertook." The Imam (as) said: "What do you have to do with guarantees? Do you not know that guarantees were what destroyed the earlier generations?"

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