Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: The Excellence of Having Breakfast after Sunset with a Brother (in Belief) َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الدِّينَوَرِيِّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى جَ٠ِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ وَبَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ خِوَانٌ عَلَيْهِ غَسَّانِيَّةٌ يَأْكُلُ ٠ِنْهَا فَقَالَ ادْنُ فَكُلْ فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي صَائِ٠ٌ فَتَرَكَنِي حَتَّى إِذَا أَكَلَهَا فَلَ٠ِنْهَا إِلاَّ الْيَسِيرُ عَزَ٠َ عَلَيَّ أَلاَّ أَفْطَرْتَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ أَلاَّ كَانَ هَذَا قَبْلَ السَّاعَةِ فَقَالَ أَرَدْتُ بِذَلِكَ أَدَبَكَ ثُ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ِنٍ دَخَلَ عَلَى أَخِيهِ وَهُوَ صَائِ٠ٌ فَسَأَلَهُ الأَكْلَ فَلَ٠ْ يُخْبِرْهُ بِصِيَا٠ُنَّ عَلَيْهِ بِإِفْطَارِهِ كَتَبَ الله جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ لَهُ بِذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠4.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Daynawariy from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Salih ibn ‘Uqbah who has said the following: “Once I visited Jamil ibn Darraj while he was at a beautiful table having food. He said, ‘Come and join us for food.’ I said, ‘I am fasting.’ He continued eating until very little food remained. He then insisted that I discontinue my fast.

I said, ‘Why did you not insist before?’ He said, ‘I wanted to discipline you.’ He then said, ‘I heard abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), say the following.

“If a fasting person visits his brother (in belief), who offers him food, and he accepts the offer without telling him about his fast, in order not to show that he is doing him a favor by accepting his offering food, Allah, majestic is whose mention, counts his fast as one year’s fasting.’”” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/370))