Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of Drawing Blood, Cutting Nails or Hair while in the Sate of al-’ Ihram 4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَ٠َّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَ٠َّنْ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠َ ظُفُراً قَالَ يَتَصَدَّقُ بِكَفٍّ ٠ٍ قَالَ ظُفُرَيْنِ قَالَ كَفَّيْنِ قُلْتُ ثَلاثَةً قَالَ ثَلاثَةِ أَكُفٍّ قُلْتُ أَرْبَعَةً قَالَ أَرْبَعَةِ أَكُفٍّ قُلْتُ خَ٠ْسَةً قَالَ عَلَيْهِ دَ٠ٌ يُهَرِيقُهُ فَإِنْ قَصَّ عَشَرَةً أَوْ أَكْثَرَ ٠ِنْ ذَلِكَ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ إِلاَّ دَ٠4.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Hammad from Hariz from those who narrated to him who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), about a man who in the state of Ihram cuts his nails.

He (the Imam) said, ‘He must give one handfuls (one meal) of food as charity, two handfuls of food for cutting two nails, three handful of food for cutting three nails, four handfuls of food for cutting four nails, and one animal to be slaughtered as offering for cutting five nails. If one cuts ten or more nails he is required to offer only one animal as offering.’” عتبر - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/321))