Al-Kafi 14031

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Mola Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Mardas, from Sa’adan Bin Muslim, from one of our companions, from Al Haris Bin Haseyra who said, ‘I passed my an Ethiopian man, and he used to supply water at Al-Medina, and he had been cut. So I said to him, ‘Who cut you?’ So he said, ‘It was the best of the people who cut me. We were seized during a robbery and we were eight persons. So they went with us to Ali^asws Bin Abu Talib^asws, and we confessed with the theft. So he^asws said to us: ‘Do you recognise that it is Prohibited?’ We said, ‘Yes’. So he^asws ordered for our fingers to be cut from the palm and left the thumb. Then he^asws ordered with us, for he^asws withheld us in a house wherein we were fed the butter and the honey until our hands were cured. Then he^asws ordered with us, so we were brought out, and clothed us, so we had the best of the clothes. Then he^asws said to us: ‘If you were to repent and correct yourselves, it would be better for you all, Allah^azwj would Attach you with your fingers in the Paradise, but if you do not do it, Allah^azwj would Attach you with your fingers in the Fire’.

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