Al-Kafi 11417

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Bastaam Bin Murra, from Is’haq in Hassan, from Haysam Bin Waqid, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Abady, from Abu Haroun, (It has been narrated) from Abu Saeed Al-Khudry who was asked, ‘What is your word regarding this fish which our brethren from the people of Al-Kufa are alleging that it is Prohibited?’ So Abu Saeed said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah^saww saying: ‘Al-Kufa is the skull of the Arabs and spear of Allah^azwj Blessed and High, and a treasure-hoard of faith, therefore take from them. I am informing you that Rasool-Allah^saww remained at Makkah for a day and a night, hungry. Then he^saww went out and we went out with him^saww. So we passed by some friends who were seated eating lunch. So they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^saww! The lunch!’ So he^saww said to them: ‘Yes, make way for your Prophet^saww’. So he^saww sat down in between two men, and I sat down, and we took a loaf and broke it in half. Then he^saww looked at their sauce, so he^saww said: ‘What is this sauce of yours?’ So they said, ‘The sea bass, O Rasool-Allah^saww!’ So he^saww threw down the piece from his^saww hand and arose. Abu Saeed said, ‘And I stayed behind after it in order to view what the opinion of the people was. So the people differed regarding what was between them. A group said, ‘Rasool-Allah^saww has Prohibited the sea bass’, and a group said, ‘He did not Prohibit it, but excused (himself^saww from) it, for had he Prohibited it, he^saww would have forbidden us from eating it’. So I memorised their discussion and followed Rasool-Allah^saww trotting until I caught up with him^saww. Then we came to other friends eating lunch, so they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^saww! The lunch!’ So he^saww said: ‘Yes, make way for your Prophet^saww’. So he^saww sat in between two men, and I sat down along with him^saww. So when he^saww took a piece, he^saww looked at the sauce of the people, so he^saww said: ‘What is this sauce of yours?’ They said, ‘Lizard, O Rasool-Allah^saww!’ So he^saww threw down the piece and arose. Abu Saeed said, ‘So I stayed behind afterwards, so the people were divided into two sects. So a sect said, Rasool-Allah^saww Prohibited it, therefore from now onwards, we should not be eating it’. And the other sect said, ‘But rather, he^saww excused (himself^saww from) it, but had he^saww Prohibited it, he^saww would have forbidden us from eating it’. Then I followed Rasool-Allah^saww until I caught up with him^saww. So we passed by the base of the (mount) Safa, and at it were cooking pots, boiling. So they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^saww! If only you^saww would stop by us until our pots are ready (with the meal)’. So he^saww said to them: ‘What is in your pots?’ So they said, ‘A donkey of ours we were riding upon, and it stalled, so we slaughtered it’. So Rasool-Allah^saww approached the cooking pots, so he^saww thwacked it by his^saww leg. Then he^saww went away hurriedly, and I remained behind after it. So some of them said, ‘Rasool-Allah^saww Prohibited the flesh of the donkey’, and some of them said, ‘Never! But rather, he^saww destroyed your cooking pots until you would not repeat slaughtering your rides’. Abu Saeed said, ‘So Rasool-Allah^saww sent for me, so when I went over to him^saww, he^saww said: ‘O Abu Saeed! Call Bilal over for me^saww’. So when Bilal came over, he^saww said: ‘O Bilal! Ascend Abu Qubays, so call out upon it that Rasool-Allah^saww has Prohibited the sea bass, and the lizard, and the domesticated donkeys. Indeed! Fear Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic and do not eat from the fish except what has peels for it, and with the peel being scales, for Allah^azwj Blessed and High Morphed seven hundred communities who disobeyed the successor^as after the Rasool^saww, so four hundred of them were seized by the land, and three hundred of them were seized by the sea. Then he^saww recited this Verse <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:34#h19"><a href="/books/quran:34#h19">[34:19]</a></a> so We Made them as folklore and scattered them with a disintegration</span>’.

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