Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Performing Tawaf Before Going to Mina in the Case of One Who Performs al-Mufrid al-Hajj َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ُفْرِدِ الْحَجِّ يُقَدِّ٠ُ طَوَافَهُ أَوْ يُؤَخِّرُهُ قَالَ يُقَدِّ٠ُهُ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ لَكِنَّ شَيْخِي لَ٠ْ يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ كَانَ إِذَا قَدِ٠َ بِفَخٍّ حَتَّى إِذَا رَجَعَ النَّاسُ إِلَى ٠َنْ شَيْخُكَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيْهِ٠) فَسَأَلْتُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ فَإِذَا هُوَ أَخُو عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيْهِ٠3.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Ali from ibn Bukayr from Zurarah who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), about a man who is for Mufrid al-Hajj if he can perform his Tawaf before or after. He (the Imam) said, ‘He can perform it before.’ A man next to him said, وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/114))