كُنْتُ مَعَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَلَى الْمَائِدَةِ فَمِلْتُ عَلَى الْهِنْدَبَاءِ فَقَالَ لِي يَا حَنَانُ لِمَ لَا تَأْكُلُ الْكُرَّاثَ قُلْتُ لِمَا جَاءَ عَنْكُمْ مِنَ الرِّوَايَةِ فِي الْهِنْدَبَاءِ فَقَالَ وَ مَا الَّذِي جَاءَ عَنَّا قُلْتُ إِنَّهُ قِيلَ عَنْكُمْ إِنَّكُمْ قُلْتُمْ إِنَّهُ يُقَطَّرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ قَطْرَةٌ قَالَ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) فَعَلَى الْكُرَّاثِ إِذَنْ سَبْعُ قَطَرَاتٍ قُلْتُ فَكَيْفَ آكُلُهُ قَالَ اقْطَعْ أُصُولَهُ وَ اقْذِفْ بِرُءُوسِهِ .
Translation
From him, from one of his companions, from Hanaan Bin Sudeyr who said, ‘I was with Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> upon the food-spread, so I inclined towards the endive, so he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘O Hanaan! Why are you not eating the leek?’ I said, ‘Due to what has come from you<sup>asws</sup> from the reports regarding the endive’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And what is that which has come from us<sup>asws</sup>?’ I said, ‘It is said from you<sup>asws</sup> that you<sup>asws</sup> said that a drop from the Paradise falls upon it, every day one drop’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So upon the leek then, seven drops’. I said, ‘So how should I eat it?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Cut off its root and throw away its head’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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