Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Al-Multazam and Prayers Near This Place ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنِ الْعَلاءِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ ٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ ٠ِنْ أَيْنَ أَسْتَلِ٠ُ الْكَعْبَةَ إِذَا فَرَغْتُ ٠ِنْ طَوَافِي قَالَ ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from al-‘Ala’ ibn Razin from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following: “I asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), ‘What part of al-Ka‘bah should I touch after completing my Tawaf?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You should touch its backside.”’ شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/27))