Al-Kafi 6213

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and a number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether, from Usman Bin Isa, from Is’haq Bin Abdul Aziz, from one of his companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws he having said to him^asws, ‘We happened to be in a road of Makkah so we required the Ihraam, and there did not happen to be with us any lime which we could perform the waxing with, so we do it with the flour, and there had entered (a thought) into me from that, what Allah^azwj Knows of’. So he^asws said: ‘Are fearing the extravagance?’ I said, ‘Yes’. So he^asws said: ‘There is no extravagance regarding what is the correction of the body. Sometimes I^asws order to the marrow with the oil, so I massage with it. But rather, the extravagance is in what spoils the wealth, and is harmful for the body’. I said, ‘So what is the austerity?’ He^asws said: ‘Eating the bread and the salt, while you are able upon something else’. I said, ‘So what is the moderation?’ He^asws said: ‘The bread, and the meat, and the milk, and the vinegar, and the butter, once this, and once this’.

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