شَكَوْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قِلَّةَ وُلْدِي وَ أَنَّهُ لَا وَلَدَ لِي فَقَالَ لِي إِذَا أَتَيْتَ الْعِرَاقَ فَتَزَوَّجِ امْرَأَةً وَ لَا عَلَيْكَ أَنْ تَكُونَ سَوْءَاءَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ مَا السَّوْءَاءُ قَالَ امْرَأَةٌ فِيهَا قُبْحٌ فَإِنَّهُنَّ أَكْثَرُ أَوْلَاداً .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ahmad Bin Abdul Rahman, from Ismail Bin Abdul Khaliq, from the one who narrated it who said, ‘I complained to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> of the scarcity of my children, and it was such that there were no children for me. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When you go over to Al-Iraq, so marry a woman and do not (worry) upon yourself if she happens to be ugly’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>, and what is the ‘ugly’?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘A woman in whom is an ugliness, for they tend to bear abundant children’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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