سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَنْهَى عَنِ النَّرْجِسِ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لِمَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لِأَنَّهُ رَيْحَانُ الْأَعَاجِمِ وَ أَخْبَرَنِي بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا أَنَّ الْأَعَاجِمَ كَانَتْ تَشَمُّهُ إِذَا صَامُوا وَ قَالُوا إِنَّهُ يُمْسِكُ الْجُوعَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Dawood Bin Is’haq Al Haza’a, from Muhammad Bin Al Fayz who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> forbid from the daffodils. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! Why is that so?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Because it is an aroma of the non-Arabs’. And, one of our companions informed me that the non-Arabs used to smell it when they were Fasting, and said, ‘It restrains the hunger’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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