Al-Kafi 12291

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad and a number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Hamdany, from Ali Bin Abdullah Al Hannat, from Sama’at Bin Mihran, from Al Kalby Al Nasaba who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about <span class="iTxt">Al-Nabeez</span>, so he^asws said: ‘Permissible’. I said, ‘I soak it, so I place the residue (of an intoxicant) in it, and what is besides that’. So he^asws said: ‘Shh! Shh! That is the rotten wine’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws, so which <span class="iTxt">Nabeez</span> do you^asws mean’. So he^asws said: ‘The people of Al-Medina complained to the Prophet^saww of the changed water and spoiling of their health. So he^saww ordered them that they should be drinking <span class="iTxt">Nabeez</span>. So the man from them was instructing his servant that he should make <span class="iTxt">Nabeez</span> for him, so he would extend his handful of dates, so he would cast these in the container. So from it, he would be drinking, and from it he would be purifying’. So I said, ‘And how much was the number of the dates which was cast?’ He^asws said: ‘Whatever a palm could gather’. I said, ‘One and two?’ So he^asws said: ‘Sometimes it was one, and sometimes it was two’. So I said, ‘And how much was the capacity of the container of water?’ (He^asws said): ‘What is between forty to eighty, to what is above that?’ So I said, ‘By the <span class="iTxt">Ratls</span> (A unit of measurement)?’ So he^asws said: ‘<span class="iTxt">Ratls</span> by the measurement of Al-Iraq’.

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