Al-Kafi 10307

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Musa Bin Al Hassan, from Umar Bin Ali Bin Umar Bin Yazeed, from Muhammad Bin Umar, from his brother Al Husayn, from his father Umar Bin Yazeed who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah^asws, and in his^asws presence was a man who said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! I love the children’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘So what is it that you do?’ He said, ‘I carry them upon my back’. So Abu Abdullah^asws placed his^asws hand upon his forehead and turned his^asws face away from him. So the man wept, and Abu Abdullah^asws looked at him as if he^asws pitied him, and he^asws said: ‘When you go to your city, so buy a fat camel and tie it with an intense tying, and take the sword and strike the hump with a striking, taking off its skin, and sit upon it with its heat’. So Umar (the narrator) said, ‘So the man said (afterwards), ‘I went to my city and bought a camel, and I tied it down with an intense tying, and took the sword, so I struck the hump with it with a strike, and then took the skin off it, and I sat upon it with its heat. So there dropped from me, upon the back of the camel, something resembling the lizard, being smaller than the lizard, and what was with me settled down’.

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