دَخَلَتِ امْرَأَةٌ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَتْ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ إِنِّي امْرَأَةٌ مُتَبَتِّلَةٌ فَقَالَ وَ مَا التَّبَتُّلُ عِنْدَكِ قَالَتْ لَا أَتَزَوَّجُ قَالَ وَ لِمَ قَالَتْ أَلْتَمِسُ بِذَلِكَ الْفَضْلَ فَقَالَ انْصَرِفِي فَلَوْ كَانَ ذَلِكِ فَضْلًا لَكَانَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ( عليه السلام ) أَحَقَّ بِهِ مِنْكِ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ يَسْبِقُهَا إِلَى الْفَضْلِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah,from Abdul Samad Bin Basheer who said, ‘A woman came over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so she said, ‘May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Keep you<sup>asws</sup> well! I am a celibate woman’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And what is the celibacy with you?’ She said, ‘I do not get married’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And why (not)?’ She said, ‘I seek the merit by that’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Leave! If that was meritorious, Fatima<sup>asws</sup> would have been more rightful with it than you, for there is no one who precedes her<sup>asws</sup> to the merit’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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