Al-Kafi 10372

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from his father, or someone else, from Sa’ad, from Al Hassan Bin Jahm who said, ‘I saw Abu Al-Hassan^asws dye (hair), so I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws, you^asws dyed?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes, readiness is from what increases in the chastity of the women, and the women have neglected the chastity due to the neglecting of their husbands of their readiness’. Then he^asws said: ‘Would it make you happy if you were to see her (your wife) upon what she sees you to be upon when you are not in readiness?’ I said, ‘No’. He^asws said: ‘So it is that’. Then he^asws said: ‘It is from the mannerisms of the Prophets^as – the cleanliness, and the perfuming, and the shaving of the hair, and the frequency of the marital relationships’. Then he^asws said: ‘There used to be for Suleyman Bin Dawood^as, a thousand wives in one castle, three hundred dowered wives, and seven hundred concubines, and Rasool-Allah^asws had the strength of forty men, and with him^asws were nine women, and he^asws used to go around to them during every day and night’.

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