Al-Kafi 9499

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Al Hassan Al Hashimy, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq Al Ahmar and Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Bundar, from Al Sayyari, from one of the Baghdadis, from Ali Bin Bilal who said, ‘Hisham Bin Al-Hakam met one of the foreigners, so he said, ‘O Hisham! What are you saying regarding the non-Arabs, are they allowed to marry among the Arabs?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So the Arabs can marry from Qureysh?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So the Qureysh can marry in the Clan of Hashim^as?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘From where did you take this?’ He said, ‘From Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws. I heard him^asws saying: ‘Your blood is matching but your reproductive organs cannot?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So the foreigner went out until he came over to Abu Abdullah^asws, so he said, ‘I met Hisham, and I asked him about such, so he informed me with such and such, and he mentioned that he had heard it from you^asws’. He^asws said: ‘Yes, I^asws have said that’. So the foreigner said, ‘So here I am with a marriage proposal’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘You are a match regarding your blood, but your nobility among your people, but Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Safeguarded us^asws from the charity, and it is a dirt from the hands of the people. Thus, we^asws abhor that we^asws associate you in what Allah^azwj has Preferred us^asws with, (as you are) the one whom Allah^azwj has not Made for you the like of what Allah^azwj has Made for us’. So the foreigner arose and he was saying, ‘By Allah^azwj! I have not seen a man like him^asws at all! He^asws repulsed me, by Allah^azwj, with the ugliest of repulsions, but still without contradicting his^asws companion’.

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