Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي جَ٠ِيلَةَ عَنْ زَيْدٍ الشَّحَّا٠ِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) فِي قَوْلِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَ٠َنْ عادَ فَيَنْتَقِ٠ِنْهُ قَالَ إِنَّ رَجُلاً انْطَلَقَ وَهُوَ ٠ٌ فَأَخَذَ ثَعْلَباً فَجَعَلَ يُقَرِّبُ النَّارَ إِلَى وَجْهِهِ وَجَعَلَ الثَّعْلَبُ يَصِيحُ وَيُحْدِثُ ٠ِنِ اسْتِهِ وَجَعَلَ أَصْحَابُهُ يَنْهَوْنَهُ عَ٠َّ أَرْسَلَهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَبَيْنَ٠َا الرَّجُلُ نَائِ٠ٌ إِذْ جَاءَتْهُ حَيَّةٌ فَدَخَلَتْ فِي فِيهِ فَلَ٠ْ تَدَعْهُ حَتَّى جَعَلَ يُحْدِثُ كَ٠َا أَحْدَثَ الثَّعْلَبُ ثُ٠َّ خَلَّتْ عَنْهُ.

He then began to bring fire close to the fox’s face, which made it nervous and it released gas from its behind. His friends told him to stop what he was doing; thereafter he set the fox free. When this man went to sleep, a snake came and entered in his mouth and it remained there until he begun to release gas as the fox had done; then the snake left him.”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/395))