Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) كَانَ أَبِي يَقُولُ خَيْرُ الأعْ٠َالِ الْحَرْثُ تَزْرَعُهُ فَيَأْكُلُ ٠ِنْهُ الْبَرُّ وَالْفَاجِرُ أَ٠ِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ اسْتَغْفَرَ لَكَ وَأَ٠َّا الْفَاجِرُ فَ٠ِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ لَعَنَهُ وَيَأْكُلُ ٠ِنْهُ الْبَهَائِ٠5.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from certain persons of our people who has said the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘My father (a.s.), would say, “The best work is farming in which you plant, and the virtuous as well as sinful ones eat.

The virtuous on eating asks forgiveness for you and the sinful one on eating it is condemned; and even animals and birds eat thereof.’” رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/332))