قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي لَا يَأْكُلُونَ لَحْمَ الضَّأْنِ قَالَ فَقَالَ وَ لِمَ قَالَ قُلْتُ إِنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ يُهَيِّجُ بِهِمُ الْمِرَّةَ السَّوْدَاءَ وَ الصُّدَاعَ وَ الْأَوْجَاعَ فَقَالَ لِي يَا سَعْدُ فَقُلْتُ لَبَّيْكَ قَالَ لَوْ عَلِمَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ شَيْئاً أَكْرَمَ مِنَ الضَّأْنِ لَفَدَى بِهِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ ( عليه السلام ) .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Sa’ad Bin Sa’ad who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, ‘My family are not eating meat of the goat’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And why?’ I said, ‘They are saying that it stirs the bitterness with them, and the black bile (acidity), and the headaches, and the pains’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘O Sa’ad!’ So I said, ‘At your service!’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Had Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Known of a thing more prestigious than the lamb He<sup>azwj</sup> would have Sacrificed it for Ismail<sup>as</sup>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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