رَأَيْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَاعِداً وَاضِعاً إِحْدَى رِجْلَيْهِ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ فَقُلْتُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ يَكْرَهُونَ هَذِهِ الْجِلْسَةَ وَ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّهَا جِلْسَةُ الرَّبِّ فَقَالَ إِنِّي إِنَّمَا جَلَسْتُ هَذِهِ الْجِلْسَةَ لِلْمَلَالَةِ وَ الرَّبُّ لَا يَمَلُّ وَ لَا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَ لَا نَوْمٌ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from the one who mentioned it, from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly who said, ‘I saw Ali Bin Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> seated placing one of his<sup>asws</sup> legs upon his<sup>asws</sup> thigh. The people used to dislike this sitting posture and they were saying, ‘It is the sitting of the Lord<sup>azwj</sup>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But rather, I<sup>asws</sup> am sitting with this posture for the tiredness, and the Lord<sup>azwj</sup>, He<sup>azwj</sup> neither gets tired, nor does slumber seize Him<sup>azwj</sup>, nor sleep’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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