Al-Kāfi — Volume 5

2,088 narrations across 357 chapters, in Arabic and English.

Chapters

Al-Sufiy People’s Visiting Abu ‘Abd Allah, ‘Alayhi al-Salam (1)
Detestability of Laziness (9)
Another Chapter on the Previous Subject (3)
Milk, Wool and Ghee of Sheep Given for their Maintenance (4)
Selling a Found Child and One Born Out of Wedlock (8)
Comprehensive Heading on Goods That Are Lawful to Exchange in Transactions and Those Unlawful to Exchange (10)
Buying Stolen Goods and Cheating (7)
Buying Food from a People through Coercion (1)
Finding the Merchandise after Delivery to Be of Different Quality (2)
Selling Juice and Wine (14)
Non-Refundable Deposit (1)
Security Deposit ( Al-Rahn ) Mortgage (22)
One’s Working in His House (2)
Disputes Arising From al-Rahn (Security Deposit, Mortgage) (4)
Liability for Safe Deposit and Borrowing (10)
Liability for Profit Sharing, Its Profit and Expenses ( Al-Mudarabah ) (9)
Liability of Technician or Person with a Certain Skill (10)
Liability of Carrier Animals and Owners of Ships (7)
Currency Exchange (33)
Another Chapter about the Previous Topic (1)
Impure Dirhams (Certain Silver or Gold Coins) (4)
Borrowing Dirhams (Coins) to Keep the Good ones Among them (7)
Loan That Brings Profit (4)
Amending one’s Properties and Planning for one’s Living (6)
The Case of one Who Gives Dirhams to Receive them in another City (3)
Journey in the Sea for Business (6)
Having a Business Where one Lives Is a Good Fortune (3)
Mutual Settlement (8)
Excellence of Farming (7)
Another Chapter on the Previous Subject (2)
Words to Say at the Time of Plantation (9)
Chapter 126(a) - Matters Permissible or Otherwise in Renting Land (10)
Chapter 126(b) - Renting (Qabala) Land for Farming in Exchange for a Certain Percentage of Produce (6)
Partnership in Farming with Taxpayers and Others and Conditions Between Them (4)
Hard Work for the Family (3)
Contracting Taxpayers’ Land and the Tax on their Person; Contracting Land from Al- Sultan and then Contracting it to Others (5)
The Case of Tenant of Land Who Dies Before Expiration of Lease (3)
One’s Renting a House or Land and His Renting to another Tenant for Higher Price (10)
The Case of one Who Contracts for a Work for a Certain Amount and then Contracts with another Person for More (3)
Selling Vegetables and So On (9)
Selling Pastures (5)
Selling Water for Agriculture and Preserving Extra Water of Valleys and Floods (6)
Reviving Barren Land (6)
Al-Shuf’ One’s Rights of Pre-emption (11)
Buying Al-Kharaj Land From Al-Sultan When Owners Are Coerced (5)
Earning Lawful kind of Sustenance (2)
Using Labors of Al-‘Aluj (infidel) for Free (5)
Brokerage and Brokerage Fees (5)
Partnership with al-Dhimmiy (non-Muslim Tax payer) (2)
Asking for Reduction of Price After Concluding a Deal (2)
Estimating Produce of Plantation (1)
Rent From Tenant and His Responsibilities (3)
Detestability of Using the Labor of a Worker before Agreeing on Wages and Delay Payment of His Wages (4)
Hiring an Animal and Using Beyond Limit (7)
Renting a House or Ship (2)
Causing Losses ( Dirar ) (8)
Saving for One’s Living Expenses (3)
Comprehensive Chapter on Limits of Rights (9)
The Case of One Who Farms on Other’s Land (3)
Rare Ahadith (2)
Lending Without Witness (3)
Rare Ahadith (5)
Another Chapter about Previous Subject, Protection of Property and Detestability of Wasting (5)
Liability for Animal’s Causing Losses (3)
Another Chapter (2)
A Slave Does Business Who Becomes Indebted (3)
Rare Ahadith (59)
Detestability of Offering Oneself for Hire (3)
Performing Personally one’s Business Tasks (2)
Buying and Selling Real Estate (8)
Debts and Borrowing (11)
The Meaning of Zuhd (Asceticism) (3)
Payment of Debts (9)
To Retaliate and Offset for Debts (3)
When a Man Dies Payment of his Debts becomes Due (2)
The Case of One Who Borrows But Does Not Intend To Pay Back (2)
Sell off Debts in Exchange for Debts (3)
Etiquette of Asking for Payment (6)
The Case of Delaying Due Payment (2)
Lodging With a Borrower When Demanding Payment (2)
Chapter 28(a) - The Case of Gift to a Creditor (3)
Chapter 28(b) - Bail out and Assignment or Referral (6)
Using the Worldly Resources as Means for Success in the Hereafter (15)
Working for al-Sultan and his Rewards (15)
The Conditions to Work for al-Sultan (7)
Selling Arms to al- Sultan (4)
The Crafts (Technologies) (7)
The Legal Status of Income from Cupping Operation (5)
Income from Eulogizing Someone to Make People Mourn (4)
The Legal Status of Income from Hairdressing and Circumcising (4)
The Legal Status of the Income of Female Singer from Singing and Selling Singers (Slave-girls) (7)
The Legal Status of Income from Teaching (2)
The legal Status of Income from Selling Copies of the Holy Quran (4)
The Degree Of Efforts Which One Must Make In Search For One’s Sustenance To Follow In the Footsteps of ‘A’immah ‘Alayhim al-Salam (16)
Gambling and Looting (10)
Earning in Unlawful ways (10)
Unlawful Earnings in the form of al-Suht such as Buying and Selling of Intoxicating Liquors . . . (8)
Consuming the Properties of Orphans (5)
The Amount a Supervisor of the Properties of Orphans Can Lawfully Use (6)
Using the Properties of Orphans in Business and Lending (8)
Safe Return of Trust (9)
A Father and Son’s Using Each Others Properties (6)
A Husband and Wife’s Using Each Other’s Properties (2)
Found and Lost Properties (17)
Promoting The Quest For Sustenance And Work To Make A Living (11)
Gifts and Presents (14)
Rule about Unlawful Interest (12)
Unlawful Interest Does Not Apply Between a Father and Son (3)
The Excellence of Doing Business and Giving It Proper Attention (13)
Etiquettes of Doing Business (23)
Excellence of Keeping Accounts and Books (1)
Entering the Market Before Others (2)
Speaking of Allah, Most High, in the Market (2)
Words to Say When Buying for Resale Purposes (4)
People With Whom Doing Business Is Not Recommended (9)
Al^Ibla’ (Trying) in the Work for Living (2)
Using Proper and Improper Measurements in Business (5)
Cheating in Business (7)
Swearing at the Time of Buying and Selling (4)
The Case of Prices of Goods (7)
The Case of Monopolization (Hoarding) Goods in Public Demand (7)
Another Chapter (3)
Excellence of Buying Wheat and Food (3)
Detestability of Estimating and Preferability of Using Measurements (3)
Continuing Profitable Businesses (3)
Permissibility or Otherwise of Approaching Merchandise Long Before Other Merchants (4)
Meticulous Effort to Make a Living (11)
Stipulations and the Choice to Dissolve a Business Deal (17)
Buying an Animal Which Produces Milk Which He Uses then Returns It (1)
Dispute between Buyer and Seller (2)
Buying and Selling Fruits (18)
Buying and Selling Food (9)
The Case of Change of Prices of Certain Merchandise before Delivery (3)
Excellence of Using Measuring and Weighing Tools (4)
Mixing of Foods of Various Kinds (3)
Using Local Measuring Tools Is the only Valid Tools (3)
Purchase of Food in Salam (Advance Payment) Manner (12)
Receiving Sustenance from Unexpected Sources (5)
Exchange of One Kind of Food Items for another Kind (18)
Exchange of Animals for Cloth or Other Items of Goods (9)
Exchange of Various Goods for Other Items of Goods (1)
Selling Goods by Numbers and Estimate and Unknown Items (13)
Buying and Selling Goods (7)
Selling for Capital with an Additional Certain Percentage Profit (Murabahah) or a Certain Amount of Profit with Mention of Percentage Ratio (8)
Advance Payment in the Transaction of Goods (3)
Selling an Item of Merchandise Which the Seller Does Not Yet Have in His Possession (9)
Excellence of Excellent Merchandise to Sell (2)
Merchandise Sold on Credit Is Purchased Back for Cash at a Lower Price Called (‘ Aynah ) (12)
The Detestability of Sleeping and Passing Time without Work (3)
Merchandise Offered for Cash as Well as on Credit (Two Conditions in a Transaction) (1)
Finding Defect in Merchandise after the Sale (3)
Buying on Credit (4)
Buying Slaves (18)
Selling a Slave Who Owns Property (3)
Buying Slaves, Finding Defects, Returnable and Non-Returnable (17)
Rare Ahadith (3)
Separation of Slaves from their Relatives (Is Not Permissible) (5)
If the Slave Asks his Master to Sell him or Stipulates to Give him Something (2)
Advance Payment for Buying Slaves and Animals (14)
Virtue and Excellence of Serving in the Army (15)
Chapter 9(b) (5)
Chapter 9(c) (3)
Challenging the Enemy for a Fight (2)
Kindness to the Prisoners and Providing Him Food (4)
Calling to al-Islam before Fighting (2)
Chapter 13(a) - Matters about which Amir al-Mu’minin (a.s), Recommended at the Time of War (5)
Chapter 13(b) (2)
It is not Lawful for a Muslim to Reside in a War Zone (1)
Chapter 15(a) - Distribution of the Properties Captured from the Enemy (8)
Chapter 15(b) (3)
Jihad of Man and Woman (1)
Chapter 15(c) (1)
The Slogan (3)
The Virtue of Maintaining Horses, Racing and Sharp Shooting Contests (16)
Man’s Defending Himself Against the Thief (4)
The Case of one Murdered over His Stolen Property (5)
Chapter 20(a) - The Excellence of Martyrdom (7)
Chapter 20(b) (3)
Chapter 20(c) (1)
Commanding others what is Obligatory and to Prohibit them from doing Evil (16)
Chapter 22(a) - Rejecting Evil in one’s Heart (5)
Kinds of Jihad (struggle) (3)
Chapter 22(b) (3)
The Case of those who Displease the Creator to Please the Creatures (3)
It is Detestable to Expose One’s Self to What He Cannot Endure (6)
To Whom Does the Obligation of Jihad Apply, and to Whom it Does not Apply (2)
Mobilization Along with People when there is Fear for al-Islam (2)
Under Whose Command Obligatory Jihad Takes Place? (3)
‘Amr ibn ‘Ubayd and al-Mu’taziliy Groups’ Visiting abu ‘Abd Allah ‘Alayhi al-Salam (2)
The Recommendations of the Messenger of Allah and Amir al-Mu’minin, about Smaller Armed Expeditions (9)
Chapter 9(a) - Granting Immunity (5)
Love of Women (10)
With Marriage Sustenance Increases (7)
Mahr (dower) in this form of Marriage, al-Mut‘ah (5)
Waiting Period in al-Mut‘ah (advantageous marriage) (3)
Addition in Time (3)
Permissible Time Length (5)
Al-Mut‘ah (advantageous marriage) Several Times with one Woman (2)
Withholding Mahr in the Case of Her Violation (5)
Her Statement about Her is Considered True (2)
Virgins (5)
Marriage with Slave Girls (4)
Child Conceived (3)
Hard Work for Marriage (2)
Inheritance (2)
Rare Ahadith (10)
Choosing a Wife (4)
Excellence of Marriage with a Religious Spouse and the Detestability of Marriage for the Sake of Wealth (3)
Women Are Similar (2)
Detestability of Celibacy (6)
The Detestability of Marriage with Barren Women (4)
Rare Ahadith (8)
Detestability of Conjugal Relation in Certain Times (5)
Detestability of Conjugal Relation in a Room with a Child (2)
Words to Say during Conjugal Relation (5)
Word to Say during Going to Bed with One’s Wife (6)
Contraception (4)
Egocentricity, Pride or Jealousy of Women (6)
Love of Women for their Husbands (2)
The Rights of Husband on His Wife (8)
Detestability for Women to Stop their Husband (2)
Excellence of Virgins (1)
Detestability for Woman Ignoring Makeup (3)
Treating One’s Wife with Honor (3)
The Right of Wife on Husband (8)
Cordiality with Wife (2)
Necessary Obedience to Husband (5)
Lack of Virtue in Woman (6)
Disciplinants for Women (4)
Disobedience to Women (12)
Keeping Secrets (6)
Detestable Matters for Women (4)
Signs of Praiseworthiness of Women (8)
Lawful Instances of Looking at Women (5)
Rules for Women (4)
Man without Sense of Conjugal Relation (3)
Looking at Taxpayers’ Women (1)
Looking at Nomads and Bedouins (1)
Head Scarf for Slaves ‘Umm Awlad (mother of children) (2)
Shaking Hands with Women (3)
The Holy Prophet’s Forming Allegiance with Women (5)
Entering in the Chambers of Women (4)
Another Chapter about the Previous Subject (4)
Rare Ahadith (2)
Lawful Looks of Master and Slave (4)
Castrated People (3)
The Time for Compulsory Head Scarf (2)
The Age When It Is Lawful to Kiss a Girl (3)
Another Chapter About the Previous Subject (2)
Treating a Female Patient (1)
Offering Greeting of Peace to Women (4)
Gheera (Vigilant Protectionism) (9)
No Vigilance and Protectionism against Lawful Matters (1)
Women’s’ Attending ‘Id (2)
Allah, Most Blessed, Most High, Has Created for People Similarities (1)
Lawful Matters for a Husband during His Wife’s Menses (5)
Conjugal Relations During Her Menses Before Ghusl (2)
Anal of Women (2)
Masturbation and Conjugal Relation with Animals (5)
Fornication (9)
Female fornicator (3)
Male Homosexuality (10)
One Who Allows Sexual Intercourse in His Anus (10)
Lesbianism (4)
Protecting Others’ Privacy Is One’s Own Protection of Privacy (7)
The Desirability of Marriage for Women at Puberty and Fortifying them with Marriage (8)
Rare Ahadith (59)
Explanation of Lawful and Unlawful Matters in Marriage, Indecency and Fornication (1)
Another Chapter About the Previous Subject (1)
Domination of Women (2)
Women’s Desire More Intense than Men’s (6)
Believers Are Good Match of Believing Women (2)
Another Chapter about the Previous Topic (6)
Marriage of ‘Umm Kulthum (2)
Another Chapter (3)
Proper Match for Marriage (1)
The Detestability of Marriage with a Drunkard (3)
Marriage of Fanatic (Enemy of ‘A’immah) and Skeptics (17)
Marriage with Kurds and Sudan (3)
Marriage of one Born out of Wedlock (5)
Kinds of Women (4)
Detestability of Marriage with Dimwitted and Insane People (3)
Fornicator Man and Women (6)
Marriage after Conjugal Relations Out of Wedlock (4)
Marriage with a Taxpayer Female (11)
Marriage of a Free Man with a Slave (9)
Marriage in the form of Al-Shighar (3)
Marriage with a Woman and ‘Umm Walad of Her Father (6)
Women Whom Allah, Most Majestic, Most Glorious, Made Lawful for Marriage (2)
Kinds of Marriage (3)
Looking at a Woman with Intention to Marry (5)
Best Kinds of Women (7)
Detestability of Marriage Ceremony at Certain Times (3)
Matters Preferable to Do During the Night of Marriage (3)
Serving Food in Marriage Ceremony (4)
Marriage without Khutbah Speech before (Solemnizing) a Marriage (2)
The Sermon for Marriage (9)
The Sunnah about Mahr (7)
Mahr of the Marriage of Amir Al-Mu’minin, ‘Alayhi al-Salam (7)
Amount of Mahr today is the Mutually Agreed Amount (5)
Rare Ahadith about Mahr (18)
The Effect of Conjugal Relation on Mahr (3)
Worst Kinds of Women (3)
One’s Intention about Payment of Mahr (3)
The Case of a Certain amount of Mahr for a Woman and a Payment to Her Father (1)
A Woman offers Herself as a Gift to a Man (5)
Dispute between Man, Woman and Her Family about Mahr (4)
Marriage without Witness (4)
Woman Lawful in Marriage for the Holy Prophet (8)
Marriage Without Guardian (8)
Fathers Permission for a Girl’s Marriage (9)
A Man Wants to Marry one’s Daughter and the Father Intends to Give Her to Another Man (6)
Two Guardians, Each Gives a Girl to a Different Man in Marriage (3)
Excellence of Women of Quraysh (3)
A Woman’s Attorney Gives Her in Marriage to a Man Other Than What She Wanted (1)
Marriage of Minors Does Not Bring them Love (1)
Age Limit of Conjugal Relations (Consult Fatwah about the contents of this chapter) (4)
Father Marries a Woman and His Son Marries Her Daughter (4)
Giving Children in Marriage and Arranging Marriage for Them (4)
A Man Loves a Woman, His Parents Want Another Woman (2)
Stipulations in Marriage: The Permissible and Impermissible ones (9)
Cheating in Marriage (19)
Cheating from Man’s Side in Marriage (11)
Rare Ahadith (1)
Virtuous Women are Fortunate Chance for a Man (6)
Marriage with Virginity Stipulation (2)
Conjugal Relation without Paying Mahr (4)
Working for Hire as Payment for Mahr (2)
Death Before Consummation of Marriage (1)
One’s Marriage with a Mother or Sister of a Woman after out of Wedlock Conjugal Relation With Her Or going to Bed with One’s Mother-in-Law Or Stepdaughter (10)
The Case of Sinful Relation of a Man with a Boy and Marriage with His Daughter or Sister (4)
Because of Marriage People Who Become Unlawful to Marry (9)
Another Chapter and a Mention of the Wives of the Holy Prophet (4)
A Marriage and Divorce or Death before or after the Consummation of Marriage then Marries Her Mother or Daughter (5)
Marriage with a Woman Divorced Against the Sunnah (4)
Encouragement to Get Married (1)
Marriage with a Woman and Her Maternal or Paternal Aunt (2)
Legalizing a Divorced Woman to Her Husband (6)
Women who Become Unlawful for Marriage Forever (13)
The Case of Four Wives and Divorcing one to Marry another before the end of the ‘Iddah (waiting period) or Marries Five Women at one Time (5)
Marriage with Two Sisters at the Same Time: Free or Slave-girls (14)
About the Words of Allah, Most Majestic, Most Glorious, ‘You must not Make Secret Dates . . . (4)
Marriage with Taxpayers and Pagans of Whom Certain Ones Become Muslims and other do not Become Muslims or all of them Become Muslims (9)
Breastfeeding (5)
Limits of Breastfeeding to Take Effect (10)
Meaning of Milk from Impregnating Agent (the Father) (11)
The Detestability of Living Single (7)
After Weaning Breastfeeding does not have any Effect (5)
Rare Ahadith (18)
Another Chapter About the Previous Subject (1)
Marriage with Nurse ( al-Qabilah ) (3)
Al-Mut‘ah (Advantageous Marriage) (8)
Such Wives Are Like Slave-girls, Not Like any of Four Wives (7)
It ( Mut‘ah ) Must Not Be Practiced if Not Urgently Needed (4)
Al-Mut‘ah (advantageous marriage) Is Not Permissible With Non-Chaste Women (6)
Conditions of al-Mut‘ah (Advantageous Marriage) (5)
The Need to Mention Conditions after Nikah (5)