Al-Kāfi — Volume 6

Chapters

• The Relation between a Stumper and the Rider (10)
• Al-Warshan (a kind of Pigeon) (3)
• Al-Fakhtah and AI-SuIsul (3)
• The Dogs (12)
• Instigating Animals against each other (2)
• The Rare Ahadith about the Stumpers (19)
• The Tools for the Stumpers (6)
• Choosing the Camel (11)
• The Sheep (9)
• The Marked Domestic Animals (2)
• The Pigeons (19)
• Setting Birds Free (4)
• The Rooster (6)
• Beautification and Showing the Bounty (15)
• Garments made entirely of al-Washy (al-Khazz, garments made of skin or fur of an animal that lives in water) (3)
• Wearing Silk and al-Dibaj (Silk Brocade) (14)
• Lifting up Garments (13)
• The Words to Say when Wearing New clothes (6)
• Wearing Old clothes (3)
• The Turbans (7)
• The cape (4)
• The Footgear (15)
• The Color of shoes (7)
• Al-Khuff (the half-Boot) (6)
• The Dress (16)
• The Tradition about Wearing al-Khuff (half-boot), al-Na‘l (Shoes) and Taking them off (6)
• The Rings (Insignia) (17)
• The Carnelian (al-‘Aqiq) (8)
• The Ruby and Emerald (5)
• The Turquoise (2)
• The Yemenite al-Jaza‘ (Carnelian) and The Crystals (2)
• The Engraving on the Ring (9)
• The Ornaments (10)
• The Spreading, Furniture (8)
• The Rare Ahadith (12)
• Dress Causing Public Abhorrence (4)
• The Dyes (12)
• The Black Dye and Woad (7)
• Dyeing Hairs with Henna (6)
• Clipping and Shaving Hairs (8)
• Keeping Hairs and Parting them (5)
• The Beard and Mustache (12)
• Removing Hairs from the Nostrils (1)
• Combing (11)
• Clipping the finger Nails (17)
• Clipping or Pulling out Gray Hairs (6)
• The Cotton White Dress (4)
• To Bury the Hairs and Fingernails (1)
• Al-Kohl (The Eye Powder): Antimony (12)
• Brushing the Teeth (10)
• Taking Shower or Bath (38)
• Washing the Head (7)
• Applying Lime Paste (15)
• The Under arms (7)
• Applying henna after Lime Paste (5)
• The Perfumes (18)
• The Detestability of Rejecting Perfume (4)
• Clothes Dyed with al-MiCasfar (dye with safflower) (13)
• Kinds of Perfumes (1)
• The Origin of Perfumes (3)
• The Musk (8)
• Al-Ghaliyah (A Perfume that is a Mix of Musk, Camphor and Ambergris) (5)
• Al-Khuluq (a kind of Perfume of Yellow Color) (6)
• The Incense (5)
• Applying Oil (7)
• Undesirability of Applying oil all the Time (3)
• The Viola Oil (11)
• The Oil of Gillyflower (2)
• Wearing Black (3)
• The Oil of Frankincense (3)
• The Oil of Gladiola (Lily) (2)
• The Sesame Oil (2)
• The Oil of Sweet Basil (5)
• The Spaciousness of the House (8)
• Decorating the Houses (14)
• Construction of Buildings (7)
• Fencing Wall Around a Flat Roof of the House (6)
• The Rare Ahadith (15)
• The Undesirable Case of One’s Sleeping Alone and the Characteristics Prohibited because of its Frightfulness (10)
• Al-Kattan (Linen) (1)
• Wearing Wool, Hairs and Fur (5)
• Wearing al-Khazz (fur or skin of an animal that lives in water) (10)
• The Excellence of Water (7)
• The Prohibited Waters (4)
• The Rare Ahadith (6)
• Substances from which Wine is Made (3)
• The Origin of the Prohibition on Wine (4)
• Wine is Still Unlawful (3)
• The Wine Drinker (19)
• Another Chapter on the above Topic (12)
• Wine is the Head of all Sins and Evil (9)
• The Wine Addict (10)
• Another Chapter on the above Topic (3)
• Another Chapter on the same Issue (4)
• Unlawfulness of Wine in the Book (2)
• The Messenger of Allah, O Allah , grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause , has Prohibited all Intoxicating Liquor of a Small or Large Quantity (17)
• Wine is Prohibited because of its Effects; whatever has an Effect as the Effect of Wine, it is Wine (5)
• Compulsion to Drink Wine as Medicine, in Thirst or in Fear (Taqiyah) (12)
• Al-Nabidh (A kind of Wine) (7)
• The Utensils (3)
• The Juice (grape juice) (4)
• The Juice which Fire has Touched (2)
• Al-Tila’ (The One-Third Juice (grape juice) that has Remained after the Evaporation of the other Two-Thirds) (11)
• The Drops of Intoxicating Substances in Food (1)
• Drinking Water Excessively (4)
• AI-Fuqa’ (Beer) (15)
• The Quality of Lawful Drinks (4)
• Also about Drinks (3)
• The Utensils in which Wine is Kept, then Vinegar is poured in it or is used for Drink (2)
• The Wine Placed in Vinegar (4)
• The Rare Ahadith (9)
• Music and Singing (25)
• Dice and Chess (17)
• Drinking Water Standing and Drinking it in One Breath (9)
• The Words to Say When Drinking Water (4)
• The Utensils, Pots, Pans, Bowls and Cups (9)
• Excellence of the Water of Zamzam and the Water of al-Mizab (6)
• Water from the Sky (3)
• Excellence of the Water of al-Furat (Euphrates) (6)
• Reason for Unlawfulness (1)
• Unlawful to use for Food the Flesh of Animals Sexually Molested by Human Beings (1)
• The Raisins (4)
• The Pomegranate (18)
• The Apple (11)
• Quince (7)
• The Fig (1)
• The Pear (2)
• The Plum (1)
• The Citron (6)
• The Bananas (3)
• The Rowan, Mountain Ash (1)
• About the Flesh of a Sexually Active Ram (1)
• The Melons (5)
• The Herbs (2)
• The Endives (10)
• The Sweet Basil (4)
• The Leek (8)
• The Celery (2)
• Coriander (1)
• Purslane (2)
• The Lettuce (1)
• Al-Sadab (Rue Herb of Grace) (2)
• Mixing of Dead Animals with Slaughtered Clean (2)
• The Watercress (4)
• The White Beet (5)
• The Truffle (2)
• Squash (7)
• The Radish (2)
• The Carrot (3)
• The Turnip (4)
• The Cucumbers (2)
• The Eggplant (Aubergine) (3)
• The Onions (5)
• Another Chapter on the Above Issue (1)
• The Garlic (3)
• The Wild Thyme (2)
• The Toothpick (11)
• Throwing away what Comes out with Toothpicks from Between the Teeth (4)
• The Saltwort and Cyperus (6)
• The Rat that Dies in Food or Drinks (3)
• Mixing of Lawful Things with others in Something (2)
• The Food of Taxpayers’ Eating with them and their Utensils (10)
• A Mention of Transgressors and Rebels (1)
• Eating Clay (9)
• Eating and drinking in Gold and Silver Utensils (7)
• Comprehensive Chapter on Animals that are not Edible (16)
• Undesirability of Eating and Drinking on the Table where Wine is Served (2)
• Undesirability of Over-Eating (11)
• Walking to a Feast without Being Invited (2)
• Eating when Leaning Against Something (10)
• Eating with the Right Hand (3)
• Eating while Walking (2)
• Several Hands Should Come Together for Food (2)
• The Inviolability of Food (1)
• Accepting the Invitation of a Muslim (6)
• Offering Food and Showing Courtesy (2)
• Another Chapter; Signs of Edible and Inedible Birds (6)
• A Man’s Finding Comfort in the House of His Brother (in belief) (6)
• A Man’s Eating in the House of his Brother (in belief) without his Permission (5)
• Without Title (6)
• Another Chapter about Measurement and that there is no Accounting for Food (6)
• Preparation of Food for a Ceremony, like Wedding and so forth (6)
• When a Man Enters a Town he is a Guest of his Brothers (in belief) who Live there (2)
• Guest is for Three Days Only (2)
• Undesirability of Making the Guest Work (3)
• The Sustenance of a Guest Comes with Him (4)
• The Right of Guest and Honoring Him (3)
• Signs of Edible and Inedible Eggs (5)
• Eating with the Guest (4)
• The Child of Adam is Hollow; thus He must Eat Food (7)
• Lunch and Dinner (2)
• Excellence of Dinner and Undesirability of Ignoring it (12)
• Wudu (washing hands clean) before and after Food (5)
• Description of Wudu before Eating Food (3)
• Using a Towel to Wipe one’s Face after Wudu (Washing) (5)
• Mentioning the name of Allah and Tahmid (All Praise Belongs to Allah) over the Food (25)
• The Rare Ahadith (21)
• Eating Pieces of Food that Fall on the Table-spread (9)
• Lamb and Young Goats Fed with the Milk of Pigs (5)
• The Excellence of Bread (14)
• Barley Bread (1)
• Bread of Rice (3)
• Kinds of Sawiq (roasted flour) and the Excellence of Sawiq of Wheat (14)
• Sawiq of Lintels (3)
• Excellence of Meat (9)
• One who Does not Eat Meat for Forty Days his Manners Change (3)
• The Excellence of the Meat of Sheep Over Goats (3)
• The Meat of Cows and their Fat (7)
• Meat of Camels and Camels of Khurasan (2)
• Flesh of Animals that Feed on Human Feces, their Eggs and the Sheep that Drinks Wine (12)
• The Meat of Birds (6)
• The Meat of Deer and Wild Donkeys (1)
• The Meat of Buffalo (2)
• Undesirability of Eating Fresh (Raw)Meat (2)
• About Qadid (Dried Meat) (7)
• The Excellence of Shoulder Over other Parts (3)
• Mixed Dish (8)
• Tharid (Pieces of Bread in Broth) (10)
• Roast, al-Kabab and Heads (5)
• Al-Harisah (Mashed Grains and Meat) (4)
• Things Inedible in Sheep and other Animals (6)
• Al-Muthallathah (Preparation of three Kinds of Grains) Al-Hasa’ Flour Cooked with Oil Sweet or without (3)
• Al-Halwa’ (Sweet) (4)
• Hot Food (5)
• Making the Bones Bare (1)
• About Fish (10)
• Eggs and Chicken (7)
• Excellence of Salt (10)
• The Vinegar and Oil (9)
• The Khali (Wine Turned to Vinegar) (12)
• Al-Mury (a certain sauce) (1)
• The Case of the Tails of Sheep Cut off into two and the Animal Hunted (7)
• Oil and the Olive (7)
• Honey (5)
• Sugar (11)
• The Ghee (6)
• The Milk Products (9)
• The Milk Products from Cows (3)
• Yogurt (1)
• The Milk Products from Camels (2)
• Yogurt Water (4)
• Cheese (3)
• Things that can be Used from a Dead Animal and things that Cannot be Used (7)
• Cheese with Walnut (3)
• Rice (7)
• The Chickpea (Garbanzo Bean) (4)
• The Lintels (4)
• The Broad Beans and the Kidney Beans (4)
• Al-Mash (Peeled Black beans) (1)
• Al-Jawars (2)
• The Dates (20)
• Chapters on fruits (4)
• Grapes (6)
• Hunting Dog and Cheetah (20)
• Hunting During the Night (3)
• Fishing (18)
• Another Chapter on the Same Topic (13)
• Locusts (3)
• Hunting Domestic Birds (6)
• Al-Khuttaf the Bird of Black Color, a kind of Crow (3)
• Hoopoe and Shrike (3)
• The Lark (4)
• Hunting of Falcons, Hawks and Others (11)
• Hunting of Zoroastrian and Taxpayer’s Dogs (3)
• Hunting with Weapons (12)
• Al-Mi‘Rad (Flareless Arrows) (5)
• Hunting with Stone and Clay-ball (7)
• Hunting with a Snare (5)
• A Man Shoots a Prey, Hits it and it Falls in Water or Rolls Down the Mountain (2)
• A Man Shoots a Prey, Misses it but Hits another (1)
• Tools for Slaughtering (4)
• Slaughtering of Animals butted by other Animals Fall or Eaten by Predators (2)
• Blood that Falls in the Cooking Pot (1)
• The Time in which Slaughtering is not Desirable (3)
• Another Chapter on the above Issue (2)
• The Case of Animal Slaughtered by Children, Women and a Blind Person (8)
• Slaughtering by the People of the Book (17)
• Another Chapter on the above Subject in an Emergency (3)
• The Manner of Slaughtering and al-Nahr (8)
• The Case of a Man who Wants to Slaughter an Animal and the Knife by Mistake Cuts off the Head (2)
• The Camel and Bull Resist Slaughtering (4)
• The Case of an Animal Slaughtered from a Part other than the Proper Place (1)
• How Proper Slaughtering is Achieved (6)
• The Case of an Animal Slaughtered without Facing al-Qiblah (al-Ka‘bah), Mentioning the name of Allah or one after Sexual Intercourse Slaughters (6)
• The Unborn Young that is Found inside the Animal Slaughtered (5)
• Detestability of Divorcing a Cooperating Wife (5)
• Three Talaq (Divorce) in Hayd (menses) Free Period in the Presence of Witnesses in One place and Time or More is One Talaq (4)
• The Case of One who Arranges Witnesses Separately or Divorces in the Presence of a People but Does not Ask them to Bear Witness (4)
• Appointing Witness to Divorce Two Women with One word (1)
• Arranging Witness for Revocation of Divorce (5)
• Revocation of Divorce without Going to Bed is not Valid (5)
• No name (3)
• No name (1)
• One Who is not Lawful for her Husband without Marriage to another Man (6)
• Issues that Validate and Invalidate Divorce (4)
• An Absent Man Returns and Divorces at that Time that Divorce Does not Take Place until She Experiences Hayd (menses) (2)
• Divorcing an Uncooperative Wife (6)
• Women who Can be Divorced in all Conditions (3)
• Divorce by an Absent Husband (9)
• Divorce of a Pregnant Woman (12)
• Divorce of a Woman whose Marriage is not Consummated (7)
• Divorce of One who is not Mature yet and Divorce of One after Menopause (6)
• Women Whose Hayd (menses) is Confusing (1)
• The Time when a Divorced Woman in the Manner of Divorce with Waiting Period and Revocable Form Becomes Stranger to him (11)
• Meaning of al^Iqra’ (Hayd-free period) (4)
• Waiting Period for a Divorced Woman and Where She must have it (14)
• The Difference between one Divorced in Non-Sunnah manner and the One who Goes out in her Waiting Period or is Sent out by the Husband (1)
• People Do not Remain Straight in Matters of Divorce without the Sword (5)
• Explanation of the words of Allah, most, High, ‘You must not send them out of their homes and they must not go out. . (2)
• Divorce of a Woman whose Hayd (menses) is Confusing (1)
• Divorce of Women Who Hide Their Experiencing Hayd (menses) (1)
• The Case of a Woman who Experiences Hayd (menses) after Every Two or Three Months (1)
• Waiting Period of a Woman whose Hayd (menses) is Confused (11)
• The Word of Women are Accepted in Matters of Hayd (menses) (1)
• A Woman Confused about Pregnancy (5)
• Maintenance of Pregnant Divorced Women (4)
• A Woman Divorcee Three Times Does not have the Right for Lodging or Maintenance (5)
• Benefits for a Divorced Woman (5)
• The Divorces Not According to the Book and Sunnah (18)
• The Rights of a Divorced Woman of mahr (dower) with Whom He has not Gone to Bed (14)
• The Issue that Completes Mahr (dower) (9)
• The Divorced Woman Whose Husband is Absent Commences Her ‘Iddah (waiting period) from the Day She is Divorced (8)
• Waiting period of a Widow whose Husband is Absent (7)
• Reason for Difference about Waiting Period and Waiting Period of a Widow (1)
• Waiting Period of a Pregnant Widow and Her Expenses (10)
• Waiting Period of a Widow with whom he has Gone to Bed and where she must Complete her Waiting Period and Her Obligations (14)
• The Case of a Woman whose Husband Dies before Going to Bed with her and that there is no Waiting Period and Mahr (dower) for her (11)
• The Case of a Man who Divorces his Wife and Dies before her Waiting period Ends (6)
• Divorce and Marriage during one’s Illness (12)
• Divorce Does not Take Place unless Once has the Intention to Divorce (3)
• About words of Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, . do not harm them (women) to make it Difficult for them (1)
• Divorce of Children (5)
• Divorce of People with Mental Condition and Insane Ones and their Guardian (7)
• Divorce by a Drunk Man (4)
• Divorce of One Compelled and Coerced (5)
• Divorce by a Speechless Man (4)
• Appointing an Attorney for Divorce (6)
• Swearing and Taking an Oath (13)
• ’Ila’ (swearing) does not Take Place except after Going to Bed with one’s Wife (4)
• If a Man Says to his Wife, ‘You are Unlawful for me” (4)
• There Cannot be Divorce before Marriage (5)
• The Free, Cleared and Severed Woman (3)
• The Choices (4)
• How the Choice originally was (6)
• Al-Khul* (Divorce for Payment) (10)
• Al-Mubarat (disavowing) or Divorce for Payment (10)
• Waiting Period for al-KhuP and al-Mubarat (disavowing), the Maintenance and Housing for such Women (9)
• Disharmony Between Wife and Husband (3)
• The Two Arbitrators in the case of Discord (5)
• The Absent and Missing (4)
• A Woman Receives News of the Death of her Husband or her Divorce, Counts her Waiting Period then Marries and her Previous Husband Comes (5)
• Divorce in Writing (2)
• A Woman’s Receiving News of being Divorced by her husband thus She Marries then her first Husband Comes then She is Separated from Both (2)
• A Woman Waiting Period from a Castrated Husband (1)
• One Who Becomes ill Mentally after Marriage (1)
• Al-Zihar (36)
• Al-Li‘an (Condemnation) (21)
• Explanation of Divorce with Waiting Period and what Makes Divorce Binding (9)
• The Necessary Expressions to Pronounce with the Decision to Divorce (4)
• Excellence of Son (12)
• Names and Titles (17)
• Complete Creation (1)
• Foods Preferable for a Pregnant or a Woman during Childbirth to Eat (7)
• Special Treatments for the Newborn (6)
• Al-’Aqiqah and its Being Obligatory (9)
• ‘Aqiqah for Boys or Girls is the Same (4)
• ‘Aqiqah is not Obligatory on One who Cannot Find (2)
• On the Seventh Day from Birth the Newborn’s Head is Shaved and a Name is Given to Him (12)
• ‘Aqiqah is not Equal to al-’Adhiyah (animal offered as sacrificial offering during al-Hajj) and it is Sufficient in Place of ‘Aqiqah (2)
• Words to Say on ‘Aqiqah (6)
• Resemblance of a Child (3)
• The Mother should not Eat from the Meat of ‘Aqiqah (3)
• The Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, and Fatimah, ‘Alayha al-Salam, Offered ‘Aqiqah for al-Hassan and al-Husayn (6)
• Abu Talib Offered ‘Aqiqah for the Holy Prophet, O Allah , Grant Compensation to Muhammad and his Family Worthy of their Services to Your Cause (1)
• Cleansing, Circumcision (10)
• Lowering for Girls (6)
• After Seven Days from Birth Shaving is not Required (2)
• The Rare Ahadith (3)
• Shaving Certain Parts of the Head of a Newborn and Leaving other Parts (3)
• Breastfeeding (8)
• The Liability of the Breastfeeder (2)
• Excellence of Daughters (12)
• The Preferable and Non-preferable Milk (13)
• The One Who has More Priority for the Custody of a Small Child (5)
• Growth of a Child (3)
• Disciplines for a Child (8)
• The Rights of Children (6)
• Kindness to Children (9)
• Giving Preference to One Child Over the Others (1)
• Intelligence of a Boy and Signs of his Nobility (3)
• Rare Ahadith (8)
• Prayer and Appeal before Allah for a Son (12)
• If When Pregnant one Keeps Her Intention to Name the Child Muhammad or Ali the Child will be a Boy: and the Prayer for it (4)
• Beginning of the Creation of a Human Being and His Turning in His Mother’s Womb (7)
• When a Woman Gives Birth to More than one Child (2)
• Discipline to Follow During Childbirth (1)
• Congratulation for Childbirth (3)