The Trees of al-Haram (the sacred area)
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 3|Chapter 19
6ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) فِي الشَّجَرَةِ يَقْلَعُهَا الرَّجُلُ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ فِي الْحَرَمِ قَالَ إِنْ بَنَى الْمَنْزِلَ وَالشَّجَرَةُ فِيهِ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَقْلَعَهَا وَإِنْ كَانَتْ نَبَتَتْ فِي مَنْزِلِهِ وَهُوَ لَهُ فَلْيَقْلَعْهَا.
6. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu‘alla’ ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’ from Hammad ibn ‘Uthman who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, about a man who cuts a tree in his house in al-Haram (the sacred area). He (the Imam) said, ‘If he built the house and the tree was there it is prohibited for him, but he could cut it if it grew after the house was built.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/83)
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