رَأَيْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) وَ قَدْ أَخَذَ الْحِنَّاءَ وَ جَعَلَهُ عَلَى أَظَافِيرِهِ فَقَالَ يَا حَكَمُ مَا تَقُولُ فِي هَذَا فَقُلْتُ مَا عَسَيْتُ أَنْ أَقُولَ فِيهِ وَ أَنْتَ تَفْعَلُهُ وَ إِنَّ عِنْدَنَا يَفْعَلُهُ الشُّبَّانُ فَقَالَ يَا حَكَمُ إِنَّ الْأَظَافِيرَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهَا النُّورَةُ غَيَّرَتْهَا حَتَّى تُشْبِهَ أَظَافِيرَ الْمَوْتَى فَغَيِّرْهَا بِالْحِنَّاءِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Muawiya Bin Maysara, from Al Hakam Bin Uteyba who said, ‘I saw Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> and he<sup>asws</sup> had taken the henna and made it to be upon his<sup>asws</sup> nails, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Hakam! What are you saying regarding this?’ So I said, ‘What can I say and you<sup>asws</sup> have done it, and among us it is the youth who do it’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Hakam! When the nails are hit by the <span class="iTxt">Noura</span>, it changes them until they resemble the nails of the dead, therefore change it back by the henna’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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