Thus a hundred dinars were divided into three parts between us… For example...

Thus a hundred dinars were divided into three parts between us… For example: In Kafi it is narrated through the author’s own chain of narrators from Musa bin Qasim Bajli that he said: I asked Imam Muhammad Baqir (as): My master, I hope to keep the fasts of Ramadan in Medina. He replied: Insha Allah, you will get those fasts.

I said: And I hope to set out on the 10th of Shawwal for Hajj and may the Almighty Allah bless me with Ziarat of the Messenger of Allah (S) and his family and to see you once more. Sometimes it so happens that I perform Hajj on behalf of your father, and sometimes on behalf of my father, and sometimes on behalf of one of my brothers and at times on my own behalf. Thus how should I perform it? He replied: Perform the Hajj Tamatto. I asked: I am living in Mecca since the last ten years.

He said: Perform the Hajj Tamatto.[^8] I say: This tradition can be testified from two aspects: One: The words of the narrator, that: ‘Sometimes it so happens that I perform Hajj on behalf of your father’ and Imam’s silent approval to its shows that there is no difference between Hajj on behalf of the late Imam and on behalf of the living. Two: It is that the silent approval of Imam to the following words of the narrator: ‘and sometimes on behalf of one of my brothers’ shows its goodness.

If Hajj is performed on behalf of the Imam of the Time (as) it would be more perfect and more preferable. For example: Qutub Rawandi has mentioned in Al Kharaij wal Jarah: Abu Muhammad Da-alji who was a good co-religionist of us, was a traditionist and he had two sons. One was named Abul Hasan and he was a righteous man who had lawful profession and washed the dead bodies. The other son indulged in unlawful professions.

A sum of money was sent to Abu Muhammad to perform Hajj on behalf of the Imam of the Time (aj) and this custom was prevalent among the Shias. So, Abu Muhammad gave some of this money to his errant son, and then he went to perform the Hajj. When he returned from there he reported the following incident: I was standing in Arafat when I saw an elegant young man of wheaten complexion standing besides me and busy in supplication and worship.

When people departed from Arafat, he turned to me and said: O Shaykh, are you not ashamed? I said: My master, for what? He replied: From the money someone sent to do Hajj on my behalf you gave an amount to a person who is a transgressor and drinks wine? Very soon you will lose this eye. And he pointed to one of my eyes.