كَانَ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) صَدِيقٌ لَا يَكَادُ يُفَارِقُهُ إِذَا ذَهَبَ مَكَاناً فَبَيْنَمَا هُوَ يَمْشِي مَعَهُ فِي الْحَذَّاءِينَ وَ مَعَهُ غُلَامٌ لَهُ سِنْدِيٌّ يَمْشِي خَلْفَهُمَا إِذَا الْتَفَتَ الرَّجُلُ يُرِيدُ غُلَامَهُ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَلَمْ يَرَهُ فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ فِي الرَّابِعَةِ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ الْفَاعِلَةِ أَيْنَ كُنْتَ قَالَ فَرَفَعَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَدَهُ فَصَكَّ بِهَا جَبْهَةَ نَفْسِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ تَقْذِفُ أُمَّهُ قَدْ كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ لَكَ وَرَعاً فَإِذَا لَيْسَ لَكَ وَرَعٌ فَقَالَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّ أُمَّهُ سِنْدِيَّةٌ مُشْرِكَةٌ فَقَالَ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ نِكَاحاً تَنَحَّ عَنِّي قَالَ فَمَا رَأَيْتُهُ يَمْشِي مَعَهُ حَتَّى فَرَّقَ الْمَوْتُ بَيْنَهُمَا . وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى إِنَّ لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ نِكَاحاً يَحْتَجِزُونَ بِهِ مِنَ الزِّنَا .
Translation
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Salim, from Ahmad Bin Nazar, from Amro Bin Nu’man Al Ju’fy who said, ‘There used to be a friend for Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> who was almost never separate from him<sup>asws</sup> whenever he<sup>asws</sup> went to a place. So while he was walking with him<sup>asws</sup> among the shoemakers, and with him was a Sindy slave of his walking behind him, when the man turned around intending his slave, three times, but did not see him. So when he looked during the fourth (time), he said, ‘O son of the adulteress! Where were you?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> raised his<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> hand and hit his<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> own forehead with it, then said: ‘Glory be to Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup>! You slander his mother, and I<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> used to view the piety being for you, but there is no piety for you’. So he said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>! His mother was a Sindy woman, a Polytheist’. So he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘But don’t you know that for every community there is a (form of) marriage? Stay away from me<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>’. He (the narrator) said: ‘So I did not see him<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> walking with him until the death separated the two of them’. And in another report, ‘(He<sup>asws</sup> said): ‘For every community there is a (form of) marriage by which they are being withheld from the adultery’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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