Al-Kafi 10368

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Zakariyya Al Momin, from Ibn Muskan, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘A man came over with his wife to Umar, so he said, ‘This wife of mine is black, and I am black, and she has given birth to a white boy’. So he said to the ones who were in his presence, ‘What are your views?’ So they said, ‘We view that she should be stoned, for she is black and her husband is black, and her child is white’. He^asws said: ‘So Amir Al-Momineen^asws and she had been diverted with for the stoning. So he^asws said: ‘What is your state?’ So she narrated it to him. So he^asws  said to the black man: ‘Are you accusing your wife?’ So he said, ‘No’. He^asws said: ‘So, did you go to her and she was menstruating?’ He said, ‘She had said it to me during one night from the nights, ‘I am menstruating’. So I thought that she is scared of the cold. So I fell upon her’. So he^asws said to the woman: ‘Did he come to you and you were menstruating?’ She said, ‘Yes. Ask him, I had hindered him upon it and I refused’. He^asws said: ‘So go, for he is the son of you two, and rather the blood had overcome the seed, so he whitened, and had it stirred, it would have blackened. So when he is older, he would be black’.

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