Al-Kafi 11697

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Haroun Bin Muslim, from Mas’ada Bin Sadaqa, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘The Prophet^saww said: ‘Honour the bread, for it has been worked upon by what is between the Throne and the earth and what is from the numerous of its people’. Then he^saww said to the ones around him^saww: ‘Shall I^saww inform you all?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^saww, may the fathers and the mothers be sacrificed for you^saww’. So he^saww said: ‘There was a Prophet^as among the ones who were before you all, called Dainel^as, and he^asws gave the owner of the crossing a bread in order to cross with it. So the owner of the crossing threw down the bread and said, ‘What do I do with this bread. The bread is with us’, and he trampled it with the leg. So when Daniel^as saw that from him, he^as raised his^as hands towards the sky, then said: ‘O Allah^azwj! Honour the bread, for You^azwj have Seen, O Lord^azwj what this servant has done and what he said’. He^asws said: ‘So Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed unto the sky that it withholds the rain, and Revealed unto the earth that it become layers like the pottery. So it did not rain to the extent that their affairs reached such that some of them ate each other. So when (the situation) reached what Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Intended from that, a woman said to another, and for both of them were parents, ‘O so and so, come, let I and you both, eat my parents today, and when it is tomorrow, we both eat your parents’. So she said to her, ‘Yes’. So they ate them. So when she came over afterwards the other enticing to eat her parents, she prevented her, and she said, ‘Between me and you is a Prophet^as of Allah^azwj. So they both brought their dispute to Daniel^as. So he^as said to them both: ‘And has the matter reached to what I^as see?’ She said to him^as, ‘Yes, O Prophet^as of Allah^azwj, and even more difficult’. He^asws said: ‘So he^as raised his^as hands towards the sky, so he^as said; ‘O Allah^azwj! Return upon us with Your^azwj Grace, and Grace of Your^azwj Mercy, and do not Punish the children, and the good ones in it, by the sin of the owner of the crossing, and his disrespecting Your^azwj Bounty’. He^asws said: ‘So Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded the sky that: “Rain for Me^azwj upon the earth”, and Commanded the earth that “Grow for My^azwj Creatures, so Give them from your goodness, for I^azwj am being Merciful to them due to the young children’.

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