Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of Tawaf of One Suffering from an Illness and One Who Is Carried by Someone Else for Tawaf 5ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَ٠َّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ إِبْرَاهِي٠َانِيِّ عَنْ إِسْ٠َاعِيلَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْخَالِقِ قَالَ كُنْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) وَعِنْدَهُ ابْنُهُ عَبْدُ الله وَابْنُهُ الَّذِي يَلِيهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ أَصْلَحَكَ الله يَطُوفُ الرَّجُلُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ وَهُوَ ٠َكَّةَ لَيْسَ بِهِ عِلَّةٌ فَقَالَ لا لَوْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ يَجُوزُ لأَ٠َرْتُ ابْنِي فُلاناً فَطَافَ عَنِّي سَ٠َّى الأَصْغَرَ وَهُ٠5.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from Ibrahim ibn ‘Umar al-Yemaniy from ‘Isma‘il ibn ‘Abd al- Khaliq who has said the following: “I was next to abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), and with him (the Imam) was his son ‘Abd Allah and his other son born after him.

A man asked him (the Imam), ‘May Allah keep you well, can a man perform Tawaf for a man who lives in Makkah and who has no difficulties?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘No, if that was permissible I would have asked my son so and so’ - mentioned the name of the smaller one - ‘to perform Tawaf on my behalf’- children were listening.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/49))