كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَدَّمَ إِلَيْنَا طَعَاماً فِيهِ شِوَاءٌ وَ أَشْيَاءَ بَعْدَهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ بِقَصْعَةٍ فِيهَا أَرُزٌّ فَأَكَلْتُ مَعَهُ فَقَالَ كُلْ قُلْتُ قَدْ أَكَلْتُ فَقَالَ كُلْ فَإِنَّهُ يُعْتَبَرُ حُبُّ الرَّجُلِ لِأَخِيهِ بِانْبِسَاطِهِ فِي طَعَامِهِ ثُمَّ حَازَ لِي حَوْزاً بِإِصْبَعِهِ مِنَ الْقَصْعَةِ فَقَالَ لِي لَتَأْكُلَنَّ ذَا بَعْدَ مَا قَدْ أَكَلْتَ فَأَكَلْتُهُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Bundr, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from a number of our companions, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub, from Abdullah Bin Suleyman Al Sayrafi who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> forwarded some food towards us in which was a roast and some things after it. Then he<sup>asws</sup> came over with a bowl in which was rice. So I ate with him<sup>asws</sup>. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Eat’. I said, ‘I have eaten’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Eat, for the determination of the love of the man for his brother by his extension in his eating’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> marked for me a marking by his<sup>asws</sup> finger in the bowl, so he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘You should eat (up to) that’, after I had already eaten. So I ate it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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