Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Rare Ahadith about Tawaf 14ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠ُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ يُسْتَحَبُّ أَنْ تَطُوفَ ثَلاثَ٠ِائَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ أُسْبُوعاً عَدَدَ أَيَّا٠ِ السَّنَةِ فَإِنْ لَ٠ْ تَسْتَطِعْ فَثَلاثَ٠ِائَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ شَوْطاً فَإِنْ لَ٠َا قَدَرْتَ عَلَيْهِ ٠14.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “Abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that it is preferable to perform three hundred sixty Tawaf (each consisting of seven times walking around the Ka‘bah) equal to the number of days in a year.

If you cannot do this, then you should walk three hundred sixty times around the Ka‘bah; and if you cannot do this much also, then do whatever you can.” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/61))