سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ أَوْسَطِ ما تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ فَقَالَ مَا تَقُوتُونَ بِهِ عِيَالَكُمْ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ ذَلِكَ قُلْتُ وَ مَا أَوْسَطُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ الْخَلُّ وَ الزَّيْتُ وَ التَّمْرُ وَ الْخُبْزُ تُشْبِعُهُمْ بِهِ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً قُلْتُ كِسْوَتُهُمْ قَالَ ثَوْبٌ وَاحِدٌ .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> about the average of what one is feeding his family. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘What you are sustaining your family with, from the average of that’. I said, ‘And what is the average of that’. I said, ‘And what is the average of that?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The vinegar, and the oil, and the dates, and the bread, satiating them by it, once’. I said, ‘Their clothing?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘One cloth’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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