Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of Drawing Blood, Cutting Nails or Hair while in the Sate of al-’ Ihram 3ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠ُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ِ تَطُولُ أَظْفَارُهُ أَوْ يَنْكَسِرُ بَعْضُهَا فَيُؤْذِيهِ ذَلِكَ قَالَ لا يَقُصُّ ٠ِنْهَا شَيْئاً إِنِ اسْتَطَاعَ فَإِنْ كَانَتْ تُؤْذِيهِ فَلْيَقُصَّهَا وَلْيُطْعِ٠َكَانَ كُلِّ ظُفُرٍ قَبْضَةً ٠3.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who is in the state of Ihram and his nails grow tall or break and it annoys him.

He (the Imam) said, ‘He must not cut anything if he can; but if it upsets him, he can cut them and for every nail he must feed a handful of (one meal) food.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/320))