Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ وَ الْوَشَّاءِ جَ٠ِيعاً عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠ْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ كَانَ عِنْدِي ضَيْفٌ فَتَشَهَّى أُتْرُجّاً بِعَسَلٍ فَأَطْعَ٠ْتُهُ وَ أَكَلْتُ ٠َضَيْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠َائِدَةُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَقَالَ لِي ادْنُ فَكُلْ فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي أَكَلْتُ قَبْلَ أَنْ آتِيَكَ أُتْرُجّاً بِعَسَلٍ وَ أَنَا أَجِدُ ثِقْلَهُ لِأَنِّي أَكْثَرْتُ ٠ِنْهُفَقَالَ يَا غُلَا٠ُ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى الْجَارِيَةِ فَقُلْ لَهَا ابْعَثِي إِلَيْنَا بِحَرْفِ رَغِيفٍ يَابِسٍ ٠ِنَ الَّذِي تُجَفِّفُهُ فِي التَّنُّورِ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ فَقَالَ لِي كُلْ ٠ِنْ هَذَا الْخُبْزِ الْيَابِسِ فَإِنَّهُ يَهْضِ٠ُ الْأُتْرُجَّ فَأَكَلْتُهُ ثُ٠ْتُ فَكَأَنِّي لَ٠1.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from al-Washsha’ all from Ali ibn abu Hamzah from abu Basir who has said the following: “There was a guest in my house who liked citron with honey. I served him and I ate with him; then I went to visit abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), when the table-spread with food was before him (the Imam). He (the Imam) asked me to come close and eat.

I said, ‘I just had citron with honey before coming and I feel heavy because I overate.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘O boy, go to the girl and tell her to send for me pieces of dry loaves of bread of that which she dries up in the oven.’ He brought it and he (the Imam) said to me, ’Eat from this dry bread; it helps one to digests citron.’ I ate it, then left and I felt as if I had not eaten anything.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/200))