قَالَ فَأَيَّ شَيْءٍ قَالُوا لَكُمْ قُلْتُ قَالُوا قَدْ يَكُونُ وَلَدُ الِابْنَةِ مِنَ الْوَلَدِ وَ لَا يَكُونُ مِنَ الصُّلْبِ قَالَ فَأَيَّ شَيْءٍ احْتَجَجْتُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ قُلْتُ احْتَجَجْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ بِقَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى لِرَسُولِهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) فَقُلْ تَعالَوْا نَدْعُ أَبْناءَنا وَ أَبْناءَكُمْ وَ نِساءَنا وَ نِساءَكُمْ وَ أَنْفُسَنا وَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ قَالَ فَأَيَّ شَيْءٍ قَالُوا قُلْتُ قَالُوا قَدْ يَكُونُ فِي كَلَامِ الْعَرَبِ أَبْنَاءُ رَجُلٍ وَ آخَرُ يَقُولُ أَبْنَاؤُنَا He -asws said: ‘So what is it that they say to you?’ I said, ‘They say, ‘The sons of a daughter can be from the sons, but they still are not from the linage’.
He -asws said: ‘So, which argument do you argue against them with?’ I said, ‘We argue against them by the Statement of Allah -azwj to His -azwj Messenger -saww : say: Come let us call our sons and your sons and our women and your women and ourselves and your selves [3:61] . He -asws said: ‘So what do they say?’ I said, ‘They say that in the speech of the Arabs a man may say ‘our sons’ for the sons of another man’.
(The narrator) said, ‘Abu Ja’far -asws said: ‘O Abu Al-Jaroud! I -asws will give it (proof) from the Book of Allah -azwj that the two of them -asws are from the progeny of the Rasool-Allah -saww . None shall reject it except for the infidel’.
I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws , and where is that?’ He -asws said: ‘Where Allah -azwj Says: Prohibited unto you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters [4:23] – the Verse until it ends with the Words of the Blessed and High and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins . So, ask them, O Abu Al-Jaroud, was it Permissible for the Rasool-Allah -saww to marry the wives of the two of them -asws ?