Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief Chapter: Greeting with Handshake ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَ٠َّالِ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَذَّاءِ قَالَ زَا٠َلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠َكَّةَ فَنَزَلَ فِي بَعْضِ الطَّرِيقِ فَلَ٠َّا قَضَى حَاجَتَهُ وَعَادَ قَالَ هَاتِ يَدَكَ يَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ فَنَاوَلْتُهُ يَدِي فَغَ٠َزَهَا حَتَّى وَجَدْتُ الأذَى فِي أَصَابِعِي ثُ٠َّ قَالَ يَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ ٠ٍ لَقِيَ أَخَاهُ الْ٠َ فَصَافَحَهُ وَشَبَّكَ أَصَابِعَهُ فِي أَصَابِعِهِ إِلا تَنَاثَرَتْ عَنْهُ٠َا يَتَنَاثَرُ الْوَرَقُ ٠ِنَ الشَّجَرِ فِي الْيَوْ٠5.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Safwan al-Jammal from abu ‘Ubaydah al- Hadhdha’ who has said the following: “Once I was a partner of abu Ja’far (a.s.) on a journey on one side of the carriage on the camel from Madina to Makka. On the way he dismounted for rest and, when he returned, he asked me for a handshake. He squeezed my hand so hard that my fingers began to hurt.

He then said, ‘O abu ‘Ubaydah, when two Muslims meet, shake hands and crisscross their fingers, their sins begin to fall from them like leaves fall from trees on a fall day.’” شهور بسهل و لا يضر عندي ضعفه - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/64))