قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي يَأْكُلُونَ لَحْمَ الْمَاعِزِ وَ لَا يَأْكُلُونَ لَحْمَ الضَّأْنِ قَالَ وَ لِمَ قُلْتُ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ لَحْمٌ يُهَيِّجُ الْمِرَارَ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) لَوْ عَلِمَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَيْراً مِنَ الضَّأْنِ لَفَدَى بِهِ يَعْنِي إِسْحَاقَ . هَكَذَا جَاءَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ .
Translation
One of our companions, from Ja’far Bin Ibrahim Al Hazramy, from sa’ad Bin Sa’ad who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> that, ‘My family are eating the meat of the goat, and are not eating the meat of the lamb’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And why?’ I said, ‘They are saying that it is a meat which stirs the bitterness (acidity)’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Had Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Known of (anything) better than the lamb, He<sup>azwj</sup> would have Sacrificed by it, meaning Is’haq’. (He, the narrator said), ‘This is how it has come in the Hadeeth’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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