What Suffices for Hajjata al-Islam and What Does Not Suffice? (The following Chapter is best explained by fatwa).

Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 3|Chapter 38
Al-Kāfi

Volume 4, Book 3, Chapter 38

What Suffices for Hajjata al-Islam and What Does Not Suffice? (The following Chapter is best explained by fatwa).

14ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ حَكَمِ بْنِ حُكَيْمٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) إِنْسَانٌ هَلَكَ وَلَمْ يَحُجَّ وَلَمْ يُوصِ بِالْحَجِّ فَأَحَجَّ عَنْهُ بَعْضُ أَهْلِهِ رَجُلاً أَوِ امْرَأَةً هَلْ يُجْزِئُ ذَلِكَ وَيَكُونُ قَضَاءً عَنْهُ وَيَكُونُ الْحَجُّ لِمَنْ حَجَّ وَيُؤْجَرُ مَنْ أَحَجَّ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الْحَاجُّ غَيْرَ صَرُورَةٍ أَجْزَأَ عَنْهُمَا جَمِيعاً وَأُجِرَ الَّذِي أَحَجَّهُ.
14. It is narrated from him (narrator of previous Hadith) from Safwan from Hakam ibn Hakam who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, about a man who dies without performing al-Hajj and without a will to perform al-Hajj on his behalf. However, a certain one of his relatives, male or female, enables someone to perform al-Hajj on his behalf; if it is sufficient for his al-Hajj, or al-Hajj belongs to one who has enabled and the one who performs al-Hajj receives reward. He (the Imam) said, ‘If it is his first al-Hajj it is sufficient for both of them and the enabler receives reward.’”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/165)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 128