The Black Dye and Woad
Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 7|Chapter 31
عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْوَسِمَةِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهَا لِلشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ.
2. It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, about applying Woad. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not harmful to an old man ."
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/376)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 217