Al-Kafi 12799

Translation

Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Bundar and Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, altogether from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq Al Ahmar, (It has been narrated) from Al-Husayn son of Musa^asws who said, ‘My father^asws Musa^asws Bin Ja’far^asws, whenever he^asws wanted to enter the bathhouse, ordered that it should be ignited for him with three (people) being over it, and he^asws would not enter it until the slaves enter it and they would be laying down the matting for him. So when he^asws entered it, (into the bath) he^asws would be seated for a while, and standing for a while. So one day he^asws came out from the bathhouse, and a man from the progeny of Al-Zubeyr called Kuneyd met him^asws, and in his^asws hands were the traces of henna. So he said, ‘What are these traces in your^asws hands?’ So he^asws said: ‘Traces of henna. Woe be unto you O Kuneyd! My^asws father^asws narrated to me, and he^asws was the most knowledgeable of the people of his^asws time, from his^asws father^asws, from his^asws grandfather^asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^saww said: ‘The one who enters the bathhouse, so he waxes, then follows it up with the henna from his head to his feet, it would be a safety for him from the insanity, and the leprosy, and the vitiligo, and the corrosion to such like, from the <span class="iTxt">Noura</span>’.

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