Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Use of Shadow in the State of al-’Ihram ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠ْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْ٠َرْأَةِ يُضْرَبُ عَلَيْهَا الظِّلالُ وَهِيَ ٠ْ قُلْتُ فَالرَّجُلُ يُضْرَبُ عَلَيْهِ الظِّلالُ وَهُوَ ٠ْ إِذَا كَانَتْ بِهِ شَقِيقَةٌ وَيَتَصَدَّقُ بِ٠ُدٍّ لِكُلِّ يَوْ٠4.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from ibn abu Nasr from Ali ibn abu Hamzah from abu Basir who has said the following: “I once asked him (the Imam) (a.s.), about the case of a woman for whom a shadow is prepared while she is in the state of Ihram. He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, it is permissible.’ I then asked the same about men.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, if he suffers from severe headache, but he must pay one mud (a certain measurement) of food as charity for every day.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/302))