رَأَيْتُ دَايَةَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) تُلْقِمُهُ الْأَرُزَّ وَ تَضْرِبُهُ عَلَيْهِ فَغَمَّنِي مَا رَأَيْتُهُ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لِي أَحْسَبُكَ غَمَّكَ مَا رَأَيْتَ مِنْ دَايَةِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى قُلْتُ لَهُ نَعَمْ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَقَالَ لِي نِعْمَ الطَّعَامُ الْأَرُزُّ يُوَسِّعُ الْأَمْعَاءَ وَ يَقْطَعُ الْبَوَاسِيرَ وَ إِنَّا لَنَغْبِطُ أَهْلَ الْعِرَاقِ بِأَكْلِهِمُ الْأَرُزَّ وَ الْبُسْرَ فَإِنَّهُمَا يُوَسِّعَانِ الْأَمْعَاءَ وَ يَقْطَعَانِ الْبَوَاسِيرَ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ismail Bin Marrar, and someone else, from Hisham Bin Al Hakam, from Zurara who said, ‘I saw a nurse-maid of Abu Al-Hassan Musa<sup>asws</sup> being fed the rice, and she threw it upon him<sup>asws</sup>. So it grieved me, what I saw. So I went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> reckon your grief is due to what you saw from a nursemaid of Abu Al-Hassan Musa<sup>asws</sup>’. I said, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘The best of the foods is the rice, it expands the intestine, and cuts off the hemorrhoids, and we envy the people of Al-Iraq with their eating of the rice, and partially-ripened dates, for these two expand the intestine and cut off the hemorrhoids’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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