حَدَّثَنِي شَيْخٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا الْكُوفِيِّينَ قَالَ دَخَلَ عِيسَى بْنُ شَفَقِيٍّ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ كَانَ سَاحِراً يَأْتِيهِ النَّاسُ وَ يَأْخُذُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْأَجْرَ فَقَالَ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ أَنَا رَجُلٌ كَانَتْ صِنَاعَتِيَ السِّحْرَ وَ كُنْتُ آخُذُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْأَجْرَ وَ كَانَ مَعَاشِي وَ قَدْ حَجَجْتُ مِنْهُ وَ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيَّ بِلِقَائِكَ وَ قَدْ تُبْتُ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَهَلْ لِي فِي شَيْءٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ مَخْرَجٌ قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) حُلَّ وَ لَا تَعْقِدْ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from a Sheykh from our Kufian companions who said, ‘Isa Bin Shafaqiyya went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and he was a magician. The people were coming to him and he would take the payment upon that. So he said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I a man who used to do magic, and I used to take the payment upon that, and it was my livelihood, and I have performed Hajj from it, and Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Favoured upon me with meeting you<sup>asws</sup>, and I have repented to Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic. So is there for me in anything from that, a way out?’ So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to him: ‘Loosen it, and do not tie it (Break the spells and do not make them)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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