Al-Kafi 12334

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Musa Bin Al Hassan, from Al Sayyari, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from the one who informed him, from Ismail Bin Al Fazl Al Hashimy who said, ‘I complained to Abu Abdullah^asws of the rumbling and the winds in my stomach, and the scarcity of my digestion of the food’. So he^asws said to me: ‘Why do you not take <span class="iTxt">Nabeez</span> which we^asws drink and it digests the food and removes the rumbling and the winds from the belly?’ So I said to him^asws, ‘Describe it for me, may I be sacrificed for you^asws’. So he^asws said to me: ‘Take a <span class="iTxt">Sa’a</span> (a unit of measurement - four handfuls) of raisins, so clean its seeds and whatever is in it, then wash it with water with a renewed washing. Then soak it in similar from the water or whatever submerges it. Then leave it in the winter for three days and nights, and in the summer, for one day and one night. So when that times comes up so you take it and make it to be in a vessel, and take its measurement with a stick. Then cook it gently until two-thirds of it goes away and there remains one-third of it. Then make half a <span class="iTxt">ratl</span> (unit of measurement) of honey to be upon it, and take a measurement of the honey. Then cook it until that increment evaporates. Then take ginger and Alpinia (a plant), and cinnamon, and the saffron, and cloves, and mastic resin, and pound these and make these to be in a thin rag, and place it in is and boil it with it with a boiling. Then take it off. So when it has cooled, clean it and take from it upon your lunch and your dinner’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I did it, and it removed from me what I had, and it was an aromatic drink. It will not change, when it remains (for a while), Allah^azwj Willing’.

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