Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of One Who Makes a Will for al-Hajj, and It Is Performed from a Place Other than What the Will Requires, or the Will Says Something Less in al-Hajj ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَ٠ُوتُ فَيُوصِي بِالْحَجِّ ٠ِنْ أَيْنَ يُحَجُّ عَنْهُ قَالَ عَلَى قَدْرِ ٠َالِهِ إِنْ وَسِعَهُ ٠َنْزِلِهِ وَإِنْ لَ٠ِنَ الْكُوفَةِ فَإِنْ لَ٠ِنَ الْكُوفَةِ فَ٠3.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan, al-Rida’ (a.s.), about a man who dies and says in his will to perform al-Hajj for him. Where from this al-Hajj must be performed? He (the Imam) said, ‘It is according to the amount of asset assigned for it.

If it is sufficient from his home, then it must be performed from his home; if it is sufficient from al-Kufah, then it must be performed from al-Kufah if it is not sufficient, then it must be performed from al-Madinah.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/220))