كَانَ عِنْدِي ضَيْفٌ فَتَشَهَّى أُتْرُجّاً بِعَسَلٍ فَأَطْعَمْتُهُ وَ أَكَلْتُ مَعَهُ ثُمَّ مَضَيْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ إِذَا الْمَائِدَةُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَقَالَ لِي ادْنُ فَكُلْ فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي أَكَلْتُ قَبْلَ أَنْ آتِيَكَ أُتْرُجّاً بِعَسَلٍ وَ أَنَا أَجِدُ ثِقْلَهُ لِأَنِّي أَكْثَرْتُ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ يَا غُلَامُ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى الْجَارِيَةِ فَقُلْ لَهَا ابْعَثِي إِلَيْنَا بِحَرْفِ رَغِيفٍ يَابِسٍ مِنَ الَّذِي تُجَفِّفُهُ فِي التَّنُّورِ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ فَقَالَ لِي كُلْ مِنْ هَذَا الْخُبْزِ الْيَابِسِ فَإِنَّهُ يَهْضِمُ الْأُتْرُجَّ فَأَكَلْتُهُ ثُمَّ قُمْتُ فَكَأَنِّي لَمْ آكُلْ شَيْئاً .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam and Al Washa altogether from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I had a guest with me, so he desired to eat the Citron with honey, so I fed it to him, and I ate with him. Then I went to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and there was a meal on the table in front of him<sup>asws</sup>. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘Approach, and eat’. So I said, ‘I have eaten before coming to you<sup>asws</sup>, Citron with honey, and I still find its heaviness as I ate a lot from it’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O slave, go to the maid and say to her to send to us the dry pieces of bread from the ones she dries in the oven’. So he came with it, and he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘Eat this dry bread for it would digest the Citron’. So I ate it. Then I arose, and it was as if I had not eaten anything’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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