Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: The Excellence of Fast and Fasting ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠َنْصُورِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ عَ٠ْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قِيلُوا فَإِنَّ الله يُطْعِ٠َ وَيَسْقِيهِ فِي ٠14.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Mansur ibn al-‘Abbas from ‘Amr ibn Sa‘id from al-Hassan ibn Sadaqah who has said the following: “Abu al-Hassan (a.s.), has said, ‘Rest in the form of a short nap between sunrise and noontime; Allah gives food and water to a fasting person during his sleep.”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/204))