Chapter on Guarantee
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 1|Chapter 38
وَ قَالَ اَلصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ لِأَبِي اَلْعَبَّاسِ اَلْفَضْلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَلْمَلِكِ "مَا مَنَعَكَ مِنَ اَلْحَجِّ" قَالَ كَفَالَةٌ تَكَفَّلْتُ بِهَا قَالَ "مَا لَكَ وَ لِلْكَفَالاَتِ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ اَلْكَفَالَةَ هِيَ اَلَّتِي أَهْلَكَتِ اَلْقُرُونَ اَلْأُولَى ".
Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq عليه السلام said to Abu al-Abbas al-Fadl ibn Abd al-Malik: "What has prevented you from performing Hajj?" He replied: "A guarantee (kafalah) that I undertook." The Imam عليه السلام said: "What do you have to do with guarantees? Do you not know that guarantees were what destroyed the earlier generations?"
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 194