Zakat in Shia Islam

As Shī`ahs we are constantly bombarded with questions and accusations. One of these accusations is that we, Shī`ahs, abandon the paying of al-Zakāh. We do not abandon the paying of al-Zakāh, rather we have a limited number of things that it is obligatory to pay it on.


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Mannerism of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) - Twelve Dirham Story

Here is a beautiful Muwaththaq (Reliable) ḥadīth that tells a story about twelve dirham that was given to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم). This allows us to see the great akhlāq (manners) of the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم).

حديث الدراهم الاثني عشر التي أهديت إلى رسول الله ص

Narration of the Twelve Dirham That was Gifted to the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)

حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم عن أبيه عن محمد بن أبي عمير عن أبان الأحمر عن الصادق أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد ع قال جاء رجل إلى رسول الله ص و قد بلي ثوبه فحمل إليه اثني عشر درهما فقال ع يا علي خذ هذه الدراهم فاشتر لي بها ثوبا ألبسه

From Abān al-Aḥmar from al-Sādiq Abī `Abd Allāh Ja`far bin Muhammad (عليه السلام) said: “A man came to the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) and (saw) his (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) tattered garment, so he (the man) gave him (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) twelve dirham” So he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “O `Alī, take this money and purchase me a garment with it.”

قال علي ع فجئت إلى السوق فاشتريت له قميصا باثني عشر درهما و جئت به إلى رسول الله ص فنظر إليه فقال يا علي غير هذا أحب إلي أ ترى صاحبه يقيلنا فقلت لا أدري فقال انظر

`Alī (عليه السلام) said: “I went to the market and bought for him (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) a shirt with the twelve dirham, and I took it to the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم), and he looked at it and said: ‘O `Alī, I would like something other than this, do you think the owner will take it (back)?’ I (`Alī) said: ‘I do not know’ So he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘Go and see’”

فجئت إلى صاحبه فقلت إن رسول الله ص قد كره هذا يريد غيره فأقلنا فيه فرد علي الدراهم و جئت بها إلى رسول الله ص فمشى معه إلى السوق ليبتاع قميصا فنظر إلى جارية قاعدة على الطريق تبكي فقال لها رسول الله ص و ما شأنك قالت يا رسول الله إن أهلي أعطوني أربعة دراهم لأشتري لهم حاجة فضاعت فلا أجسر أن أرجع إليهم فأعطاها رسول الله ص أربعة دراهم و قال ارجعي إلى أهلك

I went back to the owner and I said: “The Messenger of Allāh does not like this, he wants another (shirt), (please) take it back and return the money. So I (`Alī) went back to the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم), and he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) walked with him (`Alī) to the market to buy a shirt, and he saw a slave girl sitting on the street crying. So the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said to her: ‘What is your issue?’ She said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم), my master gave me four dirham to purchase for them a thing, but I lost it (the money), and I do not dare to return to them (without purchasing something or the money). So the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) gave her four dirham, and he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘Return to your master’

و مضى رسول الله ص إلى السوق فاشترى قميصا بأربعة دراهم و لبسه و حمد الله عز و جل فرأى رجلا عريانا يقول من كساني كساه الله من ثياب الجنة فخلع رسول الله ص قميصه الذي اشتراه و كساه السائل

And the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) went to the market to purchase a shirt with four dirham, he wore it, and praised Allāh (عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ). (on his way back) He saw a man naked and he (the man) said: ‘Allāh will clothe with the garments from heaven whoever clothes me’. And the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) removed his shirt that he had bought and clothed the beggar.

ثم رجع ع إلى السوق فاشترى بالأربعة التي بقيت قميصا آخر فلبسه و حمد الله عز و جل و رجع إلى منزله فإذا الجارية قاعدة على الطريق تبكي فقال لها رسول الله ص ما لك لا تأتين أهلك قالت يا رسول الله إني قد أبطأت عليهم أخاف أن يضربوني فقال رسول الله ص مري بين يدي و دليني على أهلك و جاء رسول الله ص حتى وقف على باب دارهم ثم قال السلام عليكم يا أهل الدار فلم يجيبوه فأعاد السلام فلم يجيبوه فأعاد السلام فقالوا و عليك السلام يا رسول الله و رحمة الله و بركاته فقال ع ما لكم تركتم إجابتي في أول السلام و الثاني فقالوا يا رسول الله سمعنا كلامك فأحببنا أن نستكثر منه فقال رسول الله ص إن هذه الجارية أبطأت عليكم فلا تؤذوها فقالوا يا رسول الله هي حرة لممشاك فقال رسول الله ص الحمد لله ما رأيت اثني عشر درهما أعظم بركة من هذه كسا الله بها عاريين و أعتق نسمة

Then he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) returned to the market to purchase with the remaining four dirham a shirt, he wore it and praised Allāh (عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ), and on his return to his (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) house, he saw the (same) slave girl who was sitting on the street crying, so he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said to her: ‘Why haven’t you returned to your master?’ She said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I have delayed in returning to them, and I fear they will beat me’ So the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘Walk in front of me and guide me to your master, and the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) went until he stopped at the door of the house, then he said: ‘al-Salaamu `Alaykum, O people of house’, and no one responded to him. And the Messenger of Allāh repeated the Salām, and no one responded and he repeated the Salām, and they said: ‘Wa `Alayka al-Salaam Wa Rahmah Allāh Wa Barakaatuh, O Messenger of Allāh’. So he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘Why did you abandon answering my Salām the first and second (time)?’ So they said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم), we love to hear you speak often’. So the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘Here is your slave girl, she has delayed (returning) to you, but do not harm her’. So they said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) she is free because you came’ So the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: ‘Praise be to Allāh, look at what great blessing this twelve dirham is, this has clothed two naked people and has freed a person’

Source:

1.     Al-Sadūq, al-KhiSāl, (Qum: Mu`assassah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 2^nd ed., 1403), vol. 2, ch. 12, pg. 490-491, hadeeth # 69

Decorating the Qur'an in Gold

We see many times that the Qur’ān is decorated in gold or even written in gold. According to the Ahl al-Bayt (عليهم السلام) this is incorrect, and they do not like that the Qur’ān be decorated in gold.  Here is a Muwaththaq (Reliable) ḥadīth that a man asked Imām al-Sādiq (عليه السلام) about decorated the Qur’ān in gold, the Imām (عليه السلام) said this is incorrect.

The second ḥadīth that is found in al-Kulaynī’s al-Kāfī says the Imām (عليه السلام) did not object to a Qur’ān being decorated in gold, he (عليه السلام) only objected to the Qur’ān being written in gold. This ḥadīth is da`īf (weak), because the primary narrator (Muhammad bin al-Warrāq) from the Imām in red is majhūl (uknown).

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ يُعَشِّرُ الْمَصَاحِفَ بِالذَّهَبِ فَقَالَ لَا يَصْلُحُ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ مَعِيشَتِي فَقَالَ إِنَّكَ إِنْ تَرَكْتَهُ لِلَّهِ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لَكَ مَخْرَجاً

From Samā`ah said I asked him (عليه السلام) about a man decorating the masāḥif (The Qur’ān) with gold? So he (عليه السلام) said: ‘This is not correct.’ So he (the man) said: ‘That is my livelihood.’ So he (عليه السلام) said: ‘If you abandon it for (the sake) of Allāh, Allāh will make for you an escape (way out)’

Source:

1. Al-Tūsī, Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, 10 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 4^th Edition, 1407 AH), vol. 6, pg. 366, hadeeth # 176

Grading:

1. Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Muwaththaq (Reliable)à Milādh al-Akhyār, 16 vols., (Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406 AH), vol. 10, pg. 361

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَرَّاقِ قَالَ عَرَضْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع كِتَاباً فِيهِ قُرْآنٌ مُخَتَّمٌ مُعَشَّرٌ بِالذَّهَبِ وَ كُتِبَ فِي آخِرِهِ سُورَةٌ بِالذَّهَبِ فَأَرَيْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ فَلَمْ يَعِبْ فِيهِ شَيْئاً إِلَّا كِتَابَةَ الْقُرْآنِ بِالذَّهَبِ وَ قَالَ لَا يُعْجِبُنِي أَنْ يُكْتَبَ الْقُرْآنُ إِلَّا بِالسَّوَادِ كَمَا كُتِبَ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ

From Muhammad bin al-Warrāq said, I presented a Qur’ān to Abī `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) that was decorated with gold and the final chapters were written in gold. So I showed it to him, and he did not criticize anything in it, except the writing of the Qur’ān in gold. So he (عليه السلام) said: “I am not pleased that the Qur’ān is written in (anything) except in black, like it was written the first time”

Source:

1. Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 8 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 2, pg. 629, hadeeth # 8

Grading:

1. Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Majhūl (Unknown)à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl, 26 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 12, pg. 519

Supplicating for Forty Believers Before Supplicating For Yourself

Here is a ḥasan (Good) ḥadīth that says that if you do du’ā for forty mu’minīn before doing du’ā for yourself, your du’ā will be accepted.

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ مَنْ قَدَّمَ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ثُمَّ دَعَا اسْتُجِيبَ لَهُ

From Hishām bin Sālim from Abī `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) said: “Whoever does (du’ā) for forty mu’minīn then does du`aa (for himself), it will be accepted”

Source:

1.     Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 8 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 2, pg. 509, hadeeth # 5

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Hasan Kal-Ṣaḥīḥ (Hasan like a Ṣaḥīḥ)
à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 12, pg. 173

The View of Nepotism in Shia Islam

Here is a Ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth that talks about Shī`ah Islām’s view on Nepotism. Just because you are from the lineage of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) does not make you any better than any other person, Allāh cares about the person’s taqwah.

حدثنا محمد بن موسى بن المتوكل رحمه الله قال حدثنا محمد بن جعفر الحميري عن أحمد بن محمد بن علي عن الحسن بن محبوب عن علي بن رئاب عن أبي عبيدة الحذاء قال سمعت أبا عبد الله ع يقول لما فتح رسول الله ص مكة قام على الصفا فقال يا بني هاشم يا بني عبد المطلب إني رسول الله إليكم و إني شفيق عليكم لا تقولوا إن محمدا منا فو الله ما أوليائي منكم و لا من غيركم إلا المتقون ألا فلا أعرفكم تأتوني يوم القيامة تحملون الدنيا على رقابكم و يأتي الناس يحملون الآخرة إلا و إني قد أعذرت فيما بيني و بينكم و فيما بين الله عز و جل و بينكم و إن لي عملي و لكم عملكم

From Abī `Ubaydah al-ḥadhā’ said, I heard Abā `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) and say: “When the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) conquered Makkah, he stood upon al-ṣaffā (hill) and he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “O children of Haashim, O children of `Abd al-Muttalib, I am a Messenger of Allaah (sent) to you, and I am compassionate towards you. Do not say, ‘Verily Muhammad is from us’. By Allāh, there are no followers from you and none from other than you except the muttaqūn (ones who have taqwah). I will not recognized you if you come to me on the Day of Judgment bearing this world upon your shoulders. And the people come to me bearing the akhirah. Indeed, I have excused myself from what is between me and you, and what is between Allāh (عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ) and you, and I have my deeds and you have your deeds”

Source:

1.   Al-Sadūq, Sifāt al-Shī`ah (Tehran: Dār al-`Alami, n.d.), pg. 5-6, hadeeth # 8

Punishment for Rejecting a Religious Person in Marriage

Here is a Muwaththaq (Reliable) hadīth where the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) says if someone comes to you and you are satisfied with his manners and religion, you should marry him/her.

فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ إِذَا جَاءَكُمْ مَنْ تَرْضَوْنَ خُلُقَهُ وَ دِينَهُ فَزَوِّجُوهُ إِنَّكُمْ إِلَّا تَفْعَلُوا ذَلِكَ تَكُنْ فِتْنَةٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ فَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ

Abī Ja`far (al-Jawād) said: ‘Verily the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “If someone comes to you and you are satisfied with his manners and religion, marry him. Verily, if you do not do that, there will be fitnah (sedition) on the earth and great fasād (corruption)”’

Source:

1.     Al-Tūsī, Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, 10 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 4^th Edition, 1407 AH), vol. 7, pg. 395, hadeeth # 4

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Muwaththaq (Reliable)
à Milādh al-Akhyār (Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406 AH), vol. 12, pg. 311

Few Actions in Sunnah Better Than Many Actions in Bid'ah

A lot of people have told me, “If you weaken all the practices we do, then we will be left with very little actions to do”. Here is a ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) hadīth from the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) telling us that a few deeds done following the Sunnah is better than many deeds done in Bid`ah (innovation).

وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَلِيلٌ فِي سُنَّةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ فِي بِدْعَةٍ

And he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “Few (actions) in sunnah is better than many (actions) in bid`ah”

Source:

1. Al-Tūsī, Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, 10 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 4^th Edition, 1407 AH), vol. 3, pg. 70, hadeeth # 29

Grading:

1. Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is SaHeeH (Authentic)
à Milādh al-Akhyār (Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406 AH), vol. 5, pg. 28

Mercy of Allah

Here is a SaHeeH (Authentic) hadeeth on the mercy that  Allāh has on those servants who do tawbah naṣūḥa (sincere repentance).

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ إِذَا تَابَ الْعَبْدُ تَوْبَةً نَصُوحاً أَحَبَّهُ اللَّهُ فَسَتَرَ عَلَيْهِ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ فَقُلْتُ وَ كَيْفَ يَسْتُرُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ يُنْسِي مَلَكَيْهِ مَا كَتَبَا عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ وَ يُوحِي إِلَى جَوَارِحِهِ اكْتُمِي عَلَيْهِ ذُنُوبَهُ وَ يُوحِي إِلَى بِقَاعِ الْأَرْضِ اكْتُمِي مَا كَانَ يَعْمَلُ عَلَيْكِ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ فَيَلْقَى اللَّهَ حِينَ يَلْقَاهُ وَ لَيْسَ شَيْ‏ءٌ يَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ

From Mu`āwiyah bin Wahab said, I heard Abā `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) and he said: “When a servant does a sincere repentance, Allāh loves him, and covers (protects) him in this world and the next.” I (the narrator) said: “And how does he cover (protect) him?” He (عليه السلام) said: “He makes the angels forget what they have written against him from his sins and he inspires his limbs to hide his sins, and he will inspire the places of the earth to hide what is known from his sins. So Allāh meets him, and when he meets Him, there will be nothing from the sins to testify against him”

Source:

1.     Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 8 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 2, pg. 430-431, hadeeth # 1

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is SaHeeH (Authentic)
à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 11, pg. 295

Mercy of Allah to the Believers

 Here is a SaHīH (Authentic) hadīth that shows the great mercy that Allāh has for the mu’minīn. Inshā’Allāh, we are of the mu’minīn.

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مُسْلِمٍ ذُنُوبُ الْمُؤْمِنِ إِذَا تَابَ مِنْهَا مَغْفُورَةٌ لَهُ فَلْيَعْمَلِ الْمُؤْمِنُ لِمَا يَسْتَأْنِفُ بَعْدَ التَّوْبَةِ وَ الْمَغْفِرَةِ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ إِلَّا لِأَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ

From Muhammad bin Muslim from Abī Ja`far (عليه السلام) said: “O Muhammad bin Muslim, the sins of a mu’min, if he repents for it, he is forgiven for it. The mu’min must resume his actions after repentance and forgiveness, but by Allāh, this is not for (everyone), except the people of Imān.”

قُلْتُ فَإِنْ عَادَ بَعْدَ التَّوْبَةِ وَ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ وَ عَادَ فِي التَّوْبَةِ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مُسْلِمٍ أَ تَرَى الْعَبْدَ الْمُؤْمِنَ يَنْدَمُ عَلَى ذَنْبِهِ وَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ مِنْهُ وَ يَتُوبُ ثُمَّ لَا يَقْبَلُ اللَّهُ تَوْبَتَهُ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّهُ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ مِرَاراً يُذْنِبُ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ وَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فَقَالَ كُلَّمَا عَادَ الْمُؤْمِنُ بِالاسْتِغْفَارِ وَ التَّوْبَةِ عَادَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ بِالْمَغْفِرَةِ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ يَقْبَلُ التَّوْبَةَ وَ يَعْفُو عَنِ السَّيِّئَاتِ فَإِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُقَنِّطَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ

I (narrator) said: “What if he returns back to sin after the repentance and forgiveness, and he returns in repents (again)?” So he (عليه السلام) said: “O Muhammad bin Muslims, do you think that a believing servant regrets for his sins, and asks forgiveness from it and repents, then Allāh will not accept his repentance? I (narrator) said: “What if he repeats that sin, then repents and ask for forgiveness from Allāh? So he (عليه السلام) said: “Whenever a mu’min returns in asking for forgiveness and repents, Allāh will return his forgiveness to him, and verily Allāh is forgiving and merciful. He accepts repentance and forgives from the evil (deeds). You must beware that the mu’minīn (never) despair from the mercy of Allāh”

Source:

1.     Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 2, pg. 434, hadeeth # 6

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is SaHeeH (Authentic)
à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 11, pg. 302

Five Sunnah Acts About the Head and Body

Here is a Muwaththaq (Reliable) hadeeth that gives us the sunan (pl. of sunnah) actions that are relating to the head and body.

خمس من السنن في الرأس و خمس في الجسد

Five from the Sunan about the Head and five about the body

حدثنا محمد بن الحسن بن أحمد بن الوليد رضي الله عنه قال حدثنا محمد بن الحسن الصفار عن أحمد بن أبي عبد الله عن الحسن بن علي بن فضال عن الحسن بن الجهم قال قال أبو الحسن موسى بن جعفر ع خمس من السنن في الرأس و خمس في الجسد فأما التي في الرأس فالسواك و أخذ الشارب و فرق الشعر و المضمضة و الاستنشاق و أما التي في الجسد فالختان و حلق العانة و نتف الإبطين و تقليم الأظفار و الاستنجاء

From al-Hasan bin al-Jahm said, Abū al-Hasan Mūsa bin Ja`far (عليه السلام) said: “There are five sunan (pl. of sunnah) about the head and five (sunan) about the body. As for what is about the head, (1) siwāk (2) taking (shortening/trimming) the moustache (3) parting the hair (4) gargling (5) al-istinshāq (taking water in the nose for wuDū`). And as for what is about the body, (1) circumcision (2) shaving pubic hair (3) plucking underarm hair (4) clipping the nails (5) al-istinjā’ (washing yourself after using the restroom)”

Source:

1.     Al-Sadūq, al-KhiSāl, (Qum: Mu`assassah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 2^nd ed., 1403), vol. 1, ch. 5, pg. 271, hadeeth # 11