Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Hajj of the Holy Prophet, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause 8ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ حَ٠َانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ نَحَرَ رَسُولُ الله (صلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) بِيَدِهِ ثَلاثاً وَسِتِّينَ وَنَحَرَ عَلِيٌّ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠َا غَبَرَ قُلْتُ سَبْعَةً وَثَلاثِينَ قَالَ نَعَ٠8.

Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu‘alla’ ibn Muhammad from al-Washsha’ from Hammad ibn ‘Uthaman who has said the following: “I heard abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), say, ‘The messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, slaughtered sixty-three heads of cattle with his own hand; and Ali (a.s.), slaughtered the rest.’ I then asked, ‘Was it thirty- seven?’ He (the Imam) replied, ‘Yes.

It was thirty-seven.” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/118))