Al-Kāfi — Volume 3

2,178 narrations across 315 chapters, in Arabic and English.

Chapters

Chapters on Hayd (menses) (2)
Signs for Differentiating Between Blood of Hayd and Istihadah (3)
Differentiating Among Blood of Hayd, Virginity or a Wound (3)
Pregnant Woman Finds Blood (6)
Blood Because of Childbirth (6)
Blood Discharge after a Woman’s Experiencing Discharge-Free Period after Childbirth and Blood Discharge before Birth or after Childbirth (3)
Matters Necessary for Women during Hayd at the Times of Salah (prayer) (4)
Women Find Hayd Blood after the Coming of the Time for a Salah (Prayer) Before Performing It Or Become Clean Before the Coming of the Time for a Salah (Prayer) But Are Too Lazy for Ghusl (bath) (5)
Women Feel Hayd during Salah (Prayer) (1)
Women Must Make-up-for Fasting Because of Hayd but Not Salah (Prayer) (4)
Women’s Reading the Holy Quran During Hayd or Child-birth (5)
Minimum and Maximum Duration of Hayd (5)
Women during Hayd Can Pick up Things from a Masjid but Must Not Leave Anything Therein (1)
Women’s Hayd (menses) Stops, Comes Again and the Time of Menopause (4)
Women’s Using Medicine to Have Hayd (menses) after It Stops (3)
Using Dye during Hayd (menses) (2)
Washing Clothes of Women during Hayd (3)
Women During Hayd Pick up Prayer Rug or Water (1)
Women’s Experiencing Hayd After or Before Their Date of Hayd (3)
Women Observe Yellowish Blood Before or After Hayd (menses) (5)
First Time Hayd (menses) (3)
Examining if Hayd (menses) has Ended or Not (6)
Taking Ghusl (bath) Because of Hayd and the Kind of Water Needed (5)
Women Find Blood after Sexual Relation (3)
Comprehensive Instructions About Hayd (menses) and Istihadah (irregular menses) (7)
The Excellence of Prayer (13)
The Salah (Prayer) Any Time (3)
The Rare Ahadith (15)
The Masjids in Kufa (3)
Excellence of the Great Masjid of Kufah, Excellence of Performing Salah (prayer) and the Loveable places Therein (9)
Al-Sahlah Masjid (3)
Performing Optional Salah (Prayer) at the Time of Obligatory Salah (Prayer) and the Times Not to Perform Salah (Prayer) (9)
One Who Goes to Sleep Before Performing Salah (Prayer) or Forgets (11)
Construction of the Masjid of the Holy Prophet (3)
Forming a Barrier between One Performing Salah (Prayer) and Those Passing in Front of Him (4)
Women Performing Salah (Prayer) in Front of Men or Men Performing Salah (Prayer) With Women in Front (This chapter is best explained through the fatwas) (7)
Humility during Salah (prayer) and the Contemptibility of Playfulness during Prayer (9)
Weeping and Appealing for One’s Needs in Salah (prayer) (5)
Commencement of Adhan, Iqamah, and the Excellence of Reading them (35)
Words to Say When Entering and Leaving a Masjid (4)
Those Who Preserve Salah (prayer) and Those Who Lose (16)
The Opening Readings When Commencing Salah (prayer) (8)
Recitations in Salah (prayer) (28)
Reading Chapters of the Holy Quran Which Involve Obligatory Sajdah (6)
Reading in the Last Two Rak‘at and Tasbih Therein (2)
Ruku‘ (Kneeling) and Readings therein and When Standing up Straight Thereafter (9)
Sajdah, Readings and Recitations therein in Obligatory Salah (prayer) and Optional Salah (prayer) and Readings between the Two Sajdah (25)
Minimum and Maximum Tasbih in Ruku‘ and Sajdah (6)
Objects on Which Sajdah Is Permissible and What Is Undesirable (14)
Placing the Forehead on the Ground (9)
Manners of Standing and Sitting Positions in Salah (prayer) (9)
Salah (Prayer) Is Made Obligatory (Chapters 3-15, practical rules about prayer are best expressed in the form of fatwa.) (8)
Tashahhud after the First Two Rak‘at and After the Fourth Rak‘at and Al-Taslim (11)
Al-Qunut in Obligatory and Optional Salah (prayer) (15)
Prayers after Salah (a special form of prayer) (28)
The Case of One Whose Wudu’ Is Invalidated Before Al-Taslim (2)
Mistake in Opening of Salah (Prayer) (3)
Mistake in Recitation (3)
Mistake in Ruku‘ (3)
Mistake in Sujud (prostrations) (4)
Mistake in the First Two Rak‘at (4)
Mistake in the Morning, al-Maghrib and Friday Salah (Prayer) (4)
The Timing of Salah (Prayer), the Beginning, the End and the Outstanding Phases (9)
Mistakes in Salah (Prayer) of Three or Four Rak‘at (9)
Mistake about Four or Five Rak‘at (6)
Speaking During Salah (Prayer), or Turning Away Before Completion (9)
Facing Doubts about Salah (Prayer) As a Whole, Not Knowing if It Is Increased or Decreased, One Facing Mistakes Very Often, Mistakes in Optional Salah (prayer) and Mistakes of an Imam and Those behind Him (9)
Matters Accepted From Salah (Prayer) of a Forgetful Person (5)
Things That Invalidate Salah (Prayer) Like Laughing, Invalidating Wudu’, Making a Gesture, Forgetting and So on (12)
Offering greeting of peace to a Person Performing Salah (Prayer) and Sneezing in Salah (prayer) (3)
Killing Insects, and So on during Salah (Prayer) (6)
Building a Masjid, Items Taken from It, Invalidating Wudu’ and Sleeping in Masjid and So On (16)
Excellence of Salah (prayer) in Congregation (9)
The Time of Noon and Afternoon Salah (Prayer) (8)
Performing Salah (prayer) behind one Who Is not Qualified to Lead Others (7)
Who Is an Undesirable Leader in Salah (prayer)? Can a Slave Lead Salah (prayer)? Who Is Most Rightful to Lead Salah (prayer) (6)
Men Lead Salah (Prayer) for Women and Women Lead Salah (Prayer) for Women (3)
Performing Salah (Prayer) Behind a Qualified Person, Recitation behind Him and His Responsibilities (6)
A Prayer Leader Whose Wudu’ Is Invalid or Is without al-Qiblah (al-Ka‘bah) (4)
One Who Has Performed Salah (Prayer) but Wants to Join a Congregation or Has Led a People and Wants to Perform Again (8)
One Performing Salah (Prayer) Partially behind an Imam Who then Asks Him to Lead because of Losing his Wudu’ (14)
One Joining a Row, Alone in One Row or Away From the Prayer Leader More Than One Step (10)
Performing Salah (Prayer) Inside Ka’bah, on its Top, al-Biya 4, Churches and Places where Performing Salah (prayer) Is Undesirable (27)
Performing Salah (Prayer) In One Piece of Cloth, How Much clothing a woman Needs, Salah (prayer) of Naked People and Putting One’s Clothes in a Certain Manner, Garb with a Sash (16)
The Times of Maghrib and ‘Isha’ Salah (Prayer) (16)
Kinds of Clothes in Which It Is Undesirable to Perform Salah (Prayer) As Well As Otherwise (35)
Rules about Performing Salah (Prayer) in an Unclean Cloth Regardless One Knows it or Not (16)
Rules about Performing Salah (Prayer) With a Mask on One’s Face, with Dyes, Does not Take out One’s Hands from Under One’s Clothes during Salah (prayer) (5)
Salah (Prayer) of Children and When Should They Begin Salah (Prayer) (3)
Rules about the Very Old or One with an Illness (13)
Rules about Salah (Prayer) of Fainted or Persons (7)
The Excellence of Friday and its Night (14)
Sprucing up on Fridays (10)
Obligation of Friday Salah (prayer) (7)
The Time for Friday and ‘Asr Salah (prayer) (4)
The Time of Morning Salah (Prayer) (6)
Friday Prayer Leader’s Getting ready for Friday Prayer, His Sermon and Quietly Listening (9)
Recitations on Friday and Night (7)
Qunut (Supplication after Recitation in Second Rak‘at) in Friday Salah (Prayer) (3)
One Who Misses Friday Salah (Prayer) With Imam (1)
Optional Salah (Prayer) On Friday (3)
The Rare Ahadith about Friday (10)
Times of Salah (Prayer) on a Journey and Performing Two Salah (prayer) Soon one after the Other (5)
Required Length of Distance of a Journey for Shortened Salah (Prayer) (5)
Where to Apply Rules about Salah (Prayer) on a Journey (8)
How a Home Coming Traveler Applies Applicable Rules (3)
The Time of Salah (Prayer) In a Cloudy Day, Windy and One Who Has Performed Salah (Prayer) Without Facing the Direction of Qiblah (12)
Rules about Sailors and People Traveling Very often (11)
Salah (Prayer) of a Traveler Person behind a Non-Traveler (2)
Performing Optional Salah (Prayer) on a Journey (12)
Salah (Prayer) on a Ship (5)
The Optional Salah (prayer) (35)
Performing Optional Salah (Prayer) before or after, Compensatory prayer for them and Salah (prayer) of al-Duha’ (20)
Performing Salah (Prayer) in Dangerous Conditions (6)
Performing Salah (Prayer) in Battlefield (7)
Salah (Prayer) of Both ‘Id and the Sermon for it (11)
Salah (prayer) for Rain (4)
Performing Two Salah (Prayer) Soon After the Other (6)
Salah (Prayer) For Eclipses (7)
Salah (prayer) with Tasbih (7)
Salah (prayer) of Fatimah al-Zahra’, ‘Alayha al-Salam, and other Salawat (prayers) to build up Interests (7)
Salah (prayer) for Istikharah (asking Allah to Choose for One What Is Good) (8)
Salah (prayer) when Asking for Increase in One’s Sustenance (7)
Salah (prayer) for one’s Needs (11)
Salah (prayer) of One Who Is Afraid (2)
Salah (prayer) of One Who Likes to Travel (1)
Salah (prayer) for Thanksgiving (1)
Salah (prayer) of One who Wants to Get Married or Go to Bed with His Wife (3)
The Cleansing Quality of Water (5)
Water of Bath Houses and Water Heated by the Sun’s Rays (5)
Places Not Desirable to Use as a Lavatory (6)
Expressions to Say When Entering a Lavatory and When Coming Out (16)
Draining Urine, Washing and If One Does Not Find Water (8)
The Quantity of Water Required for Wudu’, Showers and One Who Is Excessive in the Use of Water for Wudu’ (9)
Brushing One’s Teeth (7)
Rinsing One’s Mouth and Nostrils (3)
Description of Wudu’ (9)
The Area of the Face and Hands to be Washed for Wudu’ (10)
Wiping of Head and Feet (12)
The Quantity of Water that Always Remains Clean (8)
Wiping Over the Shoes (2)
Bandages and Wounds (4)
Facing Doubts about Wudu’ Forgetting or Mixing Proper Order (9)
Matters that Invalidate or Do not Invalidate Wudu’ (17)
One’s Stepping over Feces or Other Such Things (5)
Certain Fluid, Which Is Other than Urine and Semen (4)
Kinds of Ghusl (bath) (2)
Matters Covered by Ghusl (bath) (2)
Necessity of Ghusl (bath) on Friday (7)
Description of Ghusl (bath), Wudu’ Before or Thereafter and a Man’s Ghusl (bath) in an Improper Place, Expressions to Say During Taking Ghusl (bath) and Moving a Ring During Ghusl (bath) (17)
The Case of a Small Quantity of Water, the Water with a Dead Body in it and its use by a Man to Wash His Dirty Hand in it (7)
Reason Necessitating Ghusl (bath) for Men and Women (8)
Wet Dreams of Men and Women (7)
Finding Fluid Coming Out after Ghusl (bath) (4)
One after Carnal Relations Eats, Drinks, Reads, Enters a Masjid, Dyes Hair, Uses Fragrance and So On (12)
One after Carnal Relation Sweats in His Clothes, Clothes Touch His Wet Body (6)
Semen or Al-Madhiy Comes in Contact with One’s Clothes or Body (6)
Urine Comes in Contact with One’s Clothes or Body (8)
Urine of Animals and Their Dung (10)
Clothes Come in Contact with Blood and Pus (9)
Dogs Touching Clothes, Body and So On (6)
The Case of a Well and Things that May Fall in It (Fatwa best explains Ahadith 2-12 as well as the following chapter.) (12)
Description of Tayammum (6)
When Tayammum Is Necessary and Finding Water Thereafter (10)
One’s having Little Water on a Journey but Is Afraid of Facing Thirst (4)
One’s Experiencing Carnal Relations and Having Only Ice (3)
Taking Tayammum with Clay (1)
Bandages, Injuries, One’s Suffering from Smallpox and or Experiencing Carnal Relations (5)
Rare Ahadith about Wudu’ (17)
A Well near a Cesspool (4)
Taking Wudu’ With Water from Which Animals, Beasts and Birds Have Drunk (7)
Taking Wudu’ with the Water from Which a Woman during Her Hayd (menses), People After Having Carnal Relations, a Jew, a Christian or a Person Hostile toward ’A’immah Has Drunk (Fatwa best explains Ahadith 4-6 of this chapter.) (6)
A Man Places His Hand in the Water before Washing, the Limit of Washing Hands Because of Carnal Relations, Urination, Feces and Sleeping (6)
Mixing of Rain Water with Urine, with Water Used for Taking Ghusl (bath) Because of Carnal Relations, Touching of One’s Cloth with Water Used for Washing Because of Urine (8)
The Obligation of al-Zakat (charity) and Necessary Payments from Properties (19)
Jewelries, Ornaments Are Not Subject to Zakat (10)
Zakat of Misplaced Wealth, Loans and Borrowed (13)
Times Zakat Is Due (9)
(Without Title) (2)
Rules about the Wealth Owned For Less Than a Year (5)
Rules about Profits after Paying Zakat (2)
Rules about Business Losses (9)
Animals Subject to Zakat and Those Not Subject to Zakat (7)
Zakat of Camels (3)
Refusal to Pay zakat (23)
Zakat of Cows (2)
Zakat of Sheep (4)
Disciplines for Zakat Collector (8)
Zakat on Wealth of Orphans (8)
Zakat on Wealth of Slaves, al-Mukatib and the Insane People (5)
Rules about Sultan’s Taxes on Taxpayers (6)
Rules about Leftovers of Household Expenses (3)
Zakat Paid to One Who is Found not to Be a Needy Person (3)
Zakat Paid To Those Who Do Not Believe in the Divine Authority of ’A’immah (6)
Paying Zakat on Behalf of a Deceased (5)
The Reason for Amount of Zakat Levied without the Need to Increase or Decrease (4)
Minimum and Maximum Amount of Zakat Payable to a Needy Person (4)
Paying Zakat to Small Dependents of a Believer or Offset a Loan (3)
Preferences among the Recipients of Zakat (6)
Preferences for Relatives and Those of Them to Whom Zakat Cannot Be Paid (10)
Rare Ahadith (3)
Sending Zakat from one Place to Other Places . . . (11)
Zakat for Distribution by a Needy Person who Himself is Needy (3)
Recipient Can Use Zakat as His Own Propert (3)
A Person’s Performing Hajj and so on with Zakat He Has Received (3)
Loan Is Protection for Zakat (3)
Amount of Zakat the Messenger of Allah Levied on the Properties of His Family Members (2)
Offsetting Loan for Zakat (2)
If One Runs Away With Zakat (1)
Payment of Zakat from Properties not Subject to Zakat (3)
Who Can Lawfully Receive Zakat and Who Cannot (15)
A Qualified Recipient Who Refuses to Receive Zakat (4)
Harvest Time (6)
Zakat of Tax Payers (7)
Rare Ahadith (3)
Grains Subject to Zakat (5)
What Is not Subject to Zakat of Plantation and so Forth (6)
Minimum Zakat on Plantation Produce (7)
Dates Are Subject to Zakat Only Once (1)
Zakat on Gold and Silver (9)
Causes of Death and that Believing People May Die by any Manner of Dying (10)
Difficulty in Dying (If Dying Becomes Difficult and the Agony of Death Intense) (5)
Facing the Dying Person Toward Qiblah (3)
A Believing Person Is Not Caused to Die Against His Will (2)
Things that Believers and Unbelievers See in Dying Conditions (16)
Taking out of the Souls of Believing and Unbelievers (3)
Burial Should Take Place Immediately (2)
Rare Ahadith (1)
Women during Hayd Nurse a Patient (The following chapters are about rules of washing a dead body for burial, shrouding and other matters of burial, and are best explained in the form of fatwa. Consult current fatwa about them.) (1)
Washing a Dead Body (6)
Hunut (Rubbing Camphor) on a Dead Body and Shrouding (16)
The Reward for a Person Suffering from Illness (10)
Shrouding a Deceased Women (3)
Undesirability of Perfuming the Shroud or Warming Water for Washing Dead Bodies (4)
The Desirable Pieces of Shroud and the Undesirable Ones (12)
The Amount of Water Needed for Ghusl (bath) of a Deceased Person (5)
The Two Fresh Al-Jaridah (Twigs of Palm Tree) (12)
Persons Dead Without Shower Due to Carnal Relations Hayd or Child Birth Reasons (3)
Chapter 26- Dead Woman with a Baby Moving Inside Her (3)
Cutting of Nails and Hairs of Dead Person Undesirable (4)
Things Coming Out of a Dead Body after Ghusl (bath) (3)
Washing of Persons of opposite Gender (13)
Another Section on the Same Subject (6)
The Age of Children during Which Women Can Wash Their Bodies (1)
The Ghusl (bath) Necessary for Touching a Dead Body and Washing or Touching When the Body Is Still Warm or Has Become Cold (8)
Reason behind Washing a Dead Body for Burial and After Sexual Activities (3)
The Reward for Washing a Believer for Burial (4)
The Reward for Shrouding the Body of a Believing Person (1)
The Reward for One who Prepares the Grave for a Believing Person (1)
The Required Depth of a Grave, the form of the Grave and Prepared Lahad for the Messenger of Allah (4)
Informing People to Attend a Funeral Service (3)
Expressions to Pronounce on Seeing a Dead Person (3)
The Sunnah to Carry a Dead Body (4)
The Limits of Complaints (1)
Walking Along with Procession for the Dead Body (7)
It Is Not Desirable to Ride in Funeral Procession (2)
One Who Joins a Funeral Procession and then Returns (3)
The Reward for Walking in a Funeral Procession (8)
The Reward for Lifting up the Coffin of a Dead Body (3)
The Dead Bodies of Men, Women, Children and Slaves (For such Ahadith about an act or issue of the five categories of deeds of the quality of Wujub (Obligatory), Hurmat (Prohibited), Istihbab (Preference), Kirahat (Detestability) or Ibahah (Permissibility) one must consult fatwas of one’s Mujtahid.) (6)
Rare Ahadith (3)
The Place Where the Person Performing Salah (Prayer) for a DeadBody Stands (2)
The Most Preferred Person to Perform Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person (5)
Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person without Wudu’ (5)
A Patient’s Giving Permission to His Visitors (3)
Women’s Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person (5)
The Time of Performing Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person (2)
Reason for Five Takbir in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person (5)
Salah (Prayer) for a Person in a Masjid (1)
Salah (Prayer) for a Believer’s Dead Body, Takbir and Du’a (6)
There is No Particular Du’a or Salam in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Body (3)
Saying More Than Five Takbir in Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person (3)
Salah (Prayer) For a Person of Weak Understanding of Faith and One Who Does Not Know the Truth (6)
Salah (Prayer) for a Dead Person Hostile to ’A’immah (7)
Arrival of Another Dead Body During Salah (Prayer) for One Already There (1)
How Often a Patient Should Be Visited, How Long the Duration of Visitation Should Be and Complete Visit (6)
Placing the Dead Body in front of the Grave (2)
Rare Ahadith (2)
Entering and Coming out of the Grave (5)
People Who Should and Those Who Should Not Enter a Grave (8)
Preparation for Placing a Deceased in the Grave (11)
Preparing Lahad and the Materials Needed (Ch. 64 is best explained by fatwa.) (2)
Who Should Fill Soil in the Grave and How (5)
Preparing Four Corners of the Grave and Sprinkling Water on It (11)
Using Clay or Lime over the Grave (4)
The Soil Where a Person Is Buried (2)
The Limit of a Sudden Death (2)
Condolences and the Obligations of the People of the Deceased (10)
The Reward for One Who Offers Condolences to a Saddened Person (2)
A Woman Dies with Baby Moving Inside (The following chapters are best explained by fatwa, please consult fatwa.) (2)
Ghusl (bath) for Children and Salah (Prayer) for Them (8)
People Drowned or Struck Dead (6)
People Killed (5)
People Consumed By Beasts, Birds, Pieces of Bodies of Those Killed or Burnt (7)
People Who Die in Ships and Cannot Be Brought Ashore or Are Naked (4)
Salah (Prayer) for Persons Crucified, Stoned or Dead for Capital Punishment (3)
The Obligations of the Neighbors toward the People of the Deceased and Mourning Ceremonies (6)
The Virtue (Reward) of Visiting a Patient (10)
Suffering Due to the Death of a Son (10)
Offering Condolences and Solace (8)
Patience, Impatience and to Acknowledge (the Reality of) Death (14)
The Reward for offering Condolences (4)
About offering Solace (3)
Visiting of the Graves (10)
Dead People Visit Their Families (5)
A Dying Person Observes His Properties, Children and Deeds Just Before His Death (4)
Interrogations in the Grave - Who Is Interrogated and Who Is Not (18)
The Statements that Graves Make Every Day (3)
Dictations to a Dying Person (10)
About the Spirits (Souls) of the Believers (2)
Another one of the Chapters about the Souls of the Believing People (7)
About the Souls (spirits) of the Unbelievers (5)
Worldly Garden (2)
The Children (7)
The Rare Ahadith (46)