قَالَ وَ قَرَأْتُ فِي كِتَابِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ...
قَالَ وَ قَرَأْتُ فِي كِتَابِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) يَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الْفَنَكِ يُصَلَّى فِيهِ فَكَتَبَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ He (the narrator) said, ‘And I read in a letter of Muhammad Bin Ibrahim to Abu Al-Hassan -asws , asking him -asws about the fennec fox, can one pray Salāt in it?’ So he -asws wrote: ‘There is no problem with it’.
وَ كَتَبَ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ جُلُودِ الْأَرَانِبِ فَكَتَبَ ( عليه السلام ) مَكْرُوهٌ And I wrote asking him about the skins of the rabbits, so he -asws wrote: ‘It is disliked’. وَ كَتَبَ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ ثَوْبٍ حَشْوُهُ قَزٌّ يُصَلَّى فِيهِ فَكَتَبَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ. And I wrote asking him -asws about the cloth lined with silk, can one pray Salāt in it?’ So he -asws wrote: ‘There is no problem with it’.
[22] الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْوَاسِطِيِّ عَنْ قَاسِمٍ الصَّيْقَلِ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) أَنِّي أَعْمَلُ أَغْمَادَ السُّيُوفِ مِنْ جُلُودِ الْحُمُرِ الْمَيْتَةِ فَيُصِيبُ ثِيَابِي فَأُصَلِّي فِيهَا فَكَتَبَ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَيَّ اتَّخِذْ ثَوْباً لِصَلَاتِكَ Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Abd Allah Al Wasity, from Qasim Al Sayqal who said, ‘I wrote to Al-Reza -asws , ‘I manufacture the sheaths for the swords from the skins of dead donkeys, and my clothes get hit.
So can I pray Salāt in these?’ So he -asws wrote to me: ‘Take (other) clothes for your Salāt ’. فَكَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِي ( عليه السلام ) كُنْتُ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِيكَ ( عليه السلام ) بِكَذَا وَ كَذَا فَصَعَّبَ عَلَيَّ ذَلِكَ فَصِرْتُ أَعْمَلُهَا مِنْ جُلُودِ الْحُمُرِ الْوَحْشِيَّةِ الذَّكِيَّةِ فَكَتَبَ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَيَّ كُلُّ أَعْمَالِ الْبِرِّ بِالصَّبْرِ يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ فَإِنْ كَانَ مَا تَعْمَلُ وَحْشِيّاً ذَكِيّاً فَلَا بَأْسَ .
So I wrote to Abu Ja’far -asws the 2 nd , ‘I had written to your -asws father -asws with such and such. So that was difficult upon me, so I started making these from the skinks of wild donkey properly slaughtered’. So he -asws wrote to me: ‘Every righteous work is with the patience. May Allah -azwj have Mercy on you -asws . So it was such that what you are making is of wild (donkeys), slaughtered, so there is no problem’.
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