دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ فِي رِجْلِي نَعْلٌ سَوْدَاءُ فَقَالَ يَا حَنَانُ مَا لَكَ وَ لِلسَّوْدَاءِ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ فِيهَا ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ تُضْعِفُ الْبَصَرَ وَ تُرْخِي الذَّكَرَ وَ تُورِثُ الْهَمَّ وَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ لِبَاسِ الْجَبَّارِينَ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ فَمَا أَلْبَسُ مِنَ النِّعَالِ قَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّفْرَاءِ فَإِنَّ فِيهَا ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ تَجْلُو الْبَصَرَ وَ تَشُدُّ الذَّكَرَ وَ تَدْرَأُ الْهَمَّ وَ هِيَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ لِبَاسِ النَّبِيِّينَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Hamdany, from Hanan Bin Sudeyr who said, ‘I went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and in my leg was a black sandal, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Hanaan! What is it to you and the black. Do you not know that in it are three characteristics? It weakens the vision, and slackens the manhood, and inherits the worries, and along with that, it is an apparel of the tyrants’. So I said, ‘So what shall I wear from the sandals?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is upon you with the yellow, for therein are three qualities – It polishes the vision, and intensifies the manhood, and wards off the worries, and along with that, it is from the apparels of the Prophets<sup>as</sup>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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