Al-Kafi 9463

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad and Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘A man came over to Rasool-Allah^saww, so he said, ‘O Prophet^saww of Allah^azwj! I have a daughter of an uncle whose beauty I am pleased with, and her gracefulness, and her Religion, but she is barren’. So he^saww said: ‘Do not marry her. Yusuf^as Bin Yaqoub^as met his^as brother, so he^asws said, ‘O my brother, how did you marry the women after me^as?’ So he said, ‘My father^as instructed me and said: ‘Try to the extent of your ability that there should be offspring for you who would make the earth heavy with the Glorification (of Allah^azwj)’ So I did’. He^asws said: ‘A man came the next day to the Prophet^saww, so he said similar to that. So he^saww said to him: ‘Marry the child-bearing unfamiliar one, for I^saww would express pride with you all with the community on the Day of Judgement’. So I said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘What is the terrible one?’ He^asws said: ‘The ugly one’.

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