قَالَ لَنَا الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) أَيُّ الْإِدَامِ أَحْرَى فَقَالَ بَعْضُنَا اللَّحْمُ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُنَا الزَّيْتُ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُنَا اللَّبَنُ فَقَالَ هُوَ ( عليه السلام ) لَا بَلِ الْمِلْحُ وَ لَقَدْ خَرَجْنَا إِلَى نُزْهَةٍ لَنَا وَ نَسِيَ بَعْضُ الْغِلْمَانِ الْمِلْحَ فَذَبَحُوا لَنَا شَاةً مِنْ أَسْمَنِ مَا يَكُونُ فَمَا انْتَفَعْنَا بِشَيْءٍ حَتَّى انْصَرَفْنَا .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibrahim Bin Abu Mahmoud who said, ‘Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> said to us: ‘Which food item is the worthiest?’ So one of us said, ‘The meat’, and one of us said, ‘The oil’, and one of us said, ‘The milk’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is naught but the salt, and we had gone out on a trip of ours and one of the slaves had forgotten the salt. So he slaughter a sheep for us from as fat as it can be, but it did not benefit us with anything until we dispersed (came back)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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