دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَا وَ أَبِي فَقُلْنَا لَهُ جَعَلَنَا اللَّهُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّ لَنَا خُلَطَاءَ مِنَ النَّصَارَى وَ إِنَّا نَأْتِيهِمْ فَيَذْبَحُونَ لَنَا الدَّجَاجَ وَ الْفِرَاخَ وَ الْجِدَاءَ أَ فَنَأْكُلُهَا قَالَ فَقَالَ لَا تَأْكُلُوهَا وَ لَا تَقْرَبُوهَا فَإِنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ عَلَى ذَبَائِحِهِمْ مَا لَا أُحِبُّ لَكُمْ أَكْلَهَا قَالَ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا الْكُوفَةَ دَعَانَا بَعْضُهُمْ فَأَبَيْنَا أَنْ نَذْهَبَ فَقَالَ مَا بَالُكُمْ كُنْتُمْ تَأْتُونَّا ثُمَّ تَرَكْتُمُوهُ الْيَوْمَ قَالَ فَقُلْنَا إِنَّ عَالِماً لَنَا ( عليه السلام ) نَهَانَا وَ زَعَمَ أَنَّكُمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَى ذَبَائِحِكُمْ شَيْئاً لَا يُحِبُّ لَنَا أَكْلَهَا فَقَالَ مَنْ هَذَا الْعَالِمُ هَذَا وَ اللَّهِ أَعْلَمُ النَّاسِ وَ أَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ صَدَقَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا لَنَقُولُ بِسْمِ الْمَسِيحِ ( عليه السلام ) .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hanan Bin Sudeyr who said, ‘We went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, my father and myself. So we said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Make us to be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! For us are a mixture of Christians, and we go to them, so they are slaughtering for us the poultry, and the chicken and the goats. Can we eat these?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not eat these, and do not go near these, for they are saying upon their slaughters what I<sup>asws</sup> do not like for you all to eat it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So when we proceeded to Al-Kufa, one of them invited us over, so we refused. So he said, ‘What is the matter with you? You used to come to us then you are leaving it today?’ So we said, ‘A knowledgeable one<sup>asws</sup> of ours has forbidden us, and he<sup>asws</sup> claims that you are saying upon your slaughters something that he<sup>asws</sup> does not like for us to eat it’. So he said, ‘Who is this knowledgeable one<sup>asws</sup>? By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! He<sup>asws</sup> is the most knowledgeable of the people, and the most knowledgeable one whom Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Created. By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! He<sup>asws</sup> spoke the truth, we are saying ‘In the name of the Messiah<sup>as</sup>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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