Al-Kafi 11341

Translation

Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, and Ali Bin Ibrahim Al Hashimy, from one of our companions, from Suleyman Bin Ja’far Al Ja’fary, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza^asws having said: ‘Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws said: ‘The topknot on top of the heat of the grouse is from the wiping (by the hand of) Suleyman^as Bin Dawood^as, and that is the male grouse intended to copulate with its female, but she prevented unto him. So he said to her, ‘Do not prevent me, for I do not intend except that Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic would Extract from me a person you would be remembered by’. So she answered him to what he sought. So when it wanted to lay eggs, he said to her, ‘Where do you want to lay eggs’. So she said to him, ‘I do not know, near to the road?’ He said to her, ‘I am afraid that the passers-by would pass by you, but I see for you that you should lay eggs near the road, so the one who sees you near it would think that you are picking seeds from the road’. So she answered him to that and laid eggs, and incubated them until she oversaw the births. So while the two of them were involved in that, when there noticed Suleyman^as Bin Dawood^as in his^as army, and the birds were shading him^as. So she said to him, ‘This is Suleyman^as who is coming over to us in his army, and there is no safety if he^as were to trample us, and trample our eggs’. So he said to her, ‘Suleyman^as would be a merciful man with us, so is there anything with you to gift to him^as for (the safety of) your chicks when they are born’. She said, ‘Yes, a grass-hopper which I hid from you, awaiting for my chicks for it when they are born. So is there anything with you?’ He said, ‘Yes, I have a date with me, which I hid from you for my chicks’. She said, ‘So you take your date, and I take my grass-hopper, and we go to Suleyman^asand we present these to him^as, for he^as is a man who loves the gifts’. So he took the date in his beak, and she took the grass-hopper in her claws, then they went to Suleyman^as. So when he^as saw them both, and he was upon his^as throne, he^as extended his^as hands for them. So they went over and the male sat upon the right hand and the female sat upon the left hand, and he asked them both of their state. So they informed him^as. So he^as accepted both their gifts, and diverted his^as army away from them and their eggs, and he^as wiped (by his^as hand) upon their heads, and supplicated for them both with the Blessings. So the topknot appeared on top of both their heads from the wiping of Suleyman^as’.

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