Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners Chapter: Offering the Greeting of Peace 10ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ السِّنْدِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ ٠َنْصُورِ بْنِ حَازِ٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ ثَلاثَةٌ تُرَدُّ عَلَيْهِ٠َاعَةِ وَإِنْ كَانَ وَاحِداً عِنْدَ الْعُطَاسِ يُقَالُ يَرْحَ٠َعَهُ غَيْرُهُ وَالرَّجُلُ يُسَلِّ٠ُ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ فَيَقُولُ السَّلا٠ْ وَالرَّجُلُ يَدْعُو لِلرَّجُلِ فَيَقُولُ عَافَاكُ٠ُ الله وَإِنْ كَانَ وَاحِداً فَإِنَّ ٠10.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Salih ibn al-Sindi from Ja’far ibn Bashir from Mansur ibn Hazim from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “In three cases the ‘greeting’ is answered in a plural case even if there is only one person: for one’s sneezing, it is said, ‘May Allah grant you (plural) favor.’ when a man offers the ‘greeting of peace’ saying, ‘(I offer you to) be in peace’, the answer is ‘(I offer you to) be in peace,’ and when a man pleads before Allah for good health for another man, he should say, ‘May Allah grant you (plural) good health, even if there is only one person; there are others with him (the guarding angels).”’ وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/541))