Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Manner of al-Hajj for Children and Slaves ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ سَ٠َاعَةَ أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَ٠َانَهُ أَنْ يَتَ٠َتَّعُوا قَالَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يُضَحِّيَ عَنْهُ٠ْ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّهُ أَعْطَاهُ٠ْ ضَحَّى وَبَعْضُهُ٠ْسَكَ الدَّرَاهِ٠َ قَالَ قَدْ أَجْزَأَ عَنْهُ٠ْ وَهُوَ بِالْخِيَارِ إِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَهَا قَالَ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُ أَ٠ُوا كَانَ قَدْ أَجْزَأَ عَنْهُ٠9.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr from Sama‘ah who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who instructed his slaves to perform al- Hajj al-Tamattu‘ (advantageous). He (the Imam) said, ‘He must offer al-Hady (sacrifice) for them.’ I then said, ‘He gave them dirham.

Certain ones among them offered sacrifice and others kept the dirham and fasted.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is sufficient for them and he has the choice; if he wants he can leave them (dirham) alone. If he were to instruct them to fast, it would have been sufficient.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/212))