Use of Shadow in the State of al-’Ihram
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 3|Chapter 90
5ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) هَلْ يَجُوزُ لِلْمُحْرِمِ أَنْ يَمْشِيَ تَحْتَ ظِلِّ الْمَحْمِلِ فَكَتَبَ نَعَمْ قَالَ وَسَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ عَنِ الظِّلالِ لِلْمُحْرِمِ مِنْ أَذَى مَطَرٍ أَوْ شَمْسٍ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَفْدِيَ شَاةً وَيَذْبَحَهَا بِمِنًى.
5. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Isma‘il ibn Bazi’ who has said the following: “I wrote to al-Rida’ عليه السلام, and asked if it is permissible to walk in the shadow of the carriage on camel back. He (the Imam) wrote back, ‘Yes, it is permissible.’ Another man had asked about preparing a shadow for one in the state of Ihram because of rain or sun and I was listening, he (the Imam) commanded him to pay a ransom of one sheep to be slaughtered in Mina.”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/303)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 165