Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: The Expiation and Ransom for Missed Fasting 6ـ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ شَكَوْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي أُصَدَّعُ إِذَا صُ٠ْتُ هَذِهِ الثَّلاثَةَ الأَيَّا٠ِ وَيَشُقُّ عَلَيَّ قَالَ فَاصْنَعْ كَ٠َا أَصْنَعُ إِذَا سَافَرْتُ فَإِنِّي إِذَا سَافَرْتُ تَصَدَّقْتُ عَنْ كُلِّ يَوْ٠ِنْ قُوتِ أَهْلِي الَّذِي أَقُوتُهُ٠6.

Abu Ali al-Ash’ariy has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan ibn Yahya from Yazid ibn Khalifah who has said the following: “I once complained before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), saying, ‘I get a headache if I fast the three days (recommended for every month) and it is difficult for me. He (the Imam) said, ‘You must do as I do when I travel.

When traveling I pay charity for every day of one mud (a certain measurement) of the kind of food which is used in my family.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/356))