Al-Kafi 10345

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Nuh Bin Shuayb, raising it from Abullah Bin Sinan, from one of his companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws having said: ‘A man from the Helpers came over to Rasool-Allah^asws so he said, ‘This here is a daughter of my uncle and my wife. I do not know except for goodness (from her), and she has come to me with a child intensely black, with wide nostrils, curly hair, and snub nose. I do not recognise its resemblance, neither in my maternal uncles nor in my ancestors’. So he^asws said to his wife: ‘What are you saying?’ She said, ‘No, by the One Who Sent you^asws with the Truth as a Prophet^as! No one has sat with me in my place since he possessed me, apart from him’. He^asws said: ‘So Rasool-Allah^asws lowered his^asws head, then raised his^asws eyes towards the sky, then faced towards the man, so he^asws said: ‘O you! There is no one except that between him and Adam^as are ninety nine veins, all of which stir with regards to the lineage. So when the sperm occurs in the womb, these veins stir, asking Allah^azwj for the resemblance for it. So this (child) is from those veins which neither your ancestors nor the ancestors of your ancestors realise it. Take your son to yourself’. So the woman said, ‘You^asws have relieved me, O Rasool-Allah^asws!’.

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