Hadith 104

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan, from Ahmad Bin Al-Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Al Tayyib, from Abdul Wahab Bin Mansour, from Muhammad Bin Abu Al A’ala who said, ‘I heard Yahya Bin Aksam the judge of Samarrah, after having fought with him and debated him, and interviewed him, and corresponded with him, and asked him about the knowledge(s) of the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww. He said, ‘One day while I had entered into performance of Tawaaf of the grave of Rasool-Allah-saww, I saw Muhammad Bin Ali Al-Reza-asws performing Tawaaf with it. I debated him-asws regarding issues with me, and he-asws brought them out to me. I said to him-asws, ‘By Allah-azwj! I want to ask you-asws one question, and by Allah-azwj, I am too embarrassed from that’. He-asws said to me: ‘I-asws shall inform you before you even ask me-asws. You want to ask me-asws about the Imam-asws’. I said, ‘By Allah-azwj, this is it! ’
He-asws said: ‘I-asws am he-asws! ’ I said, ‘A sign? ’ There was a staff in his-asws hand. It spoke and said, ‘He-asws is my Master-asws, Imam-asws of this era, and he-asws is the Divine Authority! ’’[121]
Note: Perhaps it evidences upon the permissibility of performing the Tawaaf of the grave of the Prophet-saww and the Imams-asws, and in it is consideration when it is far from carrying him upon the complete Tawaaf (seven circuits). But the apparent is that he-asws used to go around from the place of the visitation to the side of the leg in order to enter the house of Fatima-asws, like what is common now. And the forbiddance is not the forbiddance of the like of this, but what is reported in some of the Ahadeeth: ‘Do not perform Tawaaf of the grave! ’ It isn’t explicit in this meaning. Then it possibly means that the intended is the Tawaaf of innovation.