Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: Kinds of Clothes in Which It Is Undesirable to Perform Salah (Prayer) As Well As Otherwise 3ـ وَبِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ سُلَيْ٠َانَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠ْزَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله وَ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) عَنْ لِبَاسِ الْفِرَاءِ وَالصَّلاَةِ فِيهَا فَقَالَ لاَ تُصَلِّ فِيهَا إِلاَّ فِي٠ِنْهُ ذَكِيّاً قَالَ قُلْتُ أَ وَلَيْسَ الذَّكِيُّ ٠َّا ذُكِّيَ بِالْحَدِيدِ فَقَالَ بَلَى إِذَا كَانَ ٠َّا يُؤْكَلُ لَحْ٠َا يُؤْكَلُ لَحْ٠ِنْ غَيْرِ الْغَنَ٠ِ قَالَ لاَ بَأْسَ بِالسِّنْجَابِ فَإِنَّهُ دَابَّةٌ لاَ تَأْكُلُ اللَّحْ٠َّا نَهَى عَنْهُ رَسُولُ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) إِذْ نَهَى عَنْ كُلِّ ذِي نَابٍ وَ٠3.

Through the same chain of narrators as that of the previous Hadith the following is narrated from Muhammad ibn Sulayman from Ali ibn abu Hamzah who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah, and abu al-Hassan (a.s.), about clothes of fur in Salah (prayer). He (the Imam) said, ‘Do not perform Salah (prayer) with it unless it is made clean, by properly slaughtering.’ I then asked, ’Is proper slaughtering done with iron?

He (the Imam) said, ’Yes, if it is of edible flesh.’ I then asked about that which is of edible flesh other than sheep. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not an offense to use fur of squirrel; it is an animal that does not eat flesh and it is not of that which the Messenger of Allah prohibited; the Messenger of Allah prohibited everything that has dogtooth and claw.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/310))