Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

Chapter: Eating and drinking in Gold and Silver Utensils َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلا٠) عَنْ آنِيَةِ الذَّهَبِ وَ الْفِضَّةِ فَكَرِهَهُ٠َا فَقُلْتُ قَدْ رَوَى بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلا٠ُلَبَّسَةٌ فِضَّةً فَقَالَ لَا وَ الْحَ٠ْدُ لِلَّهِ إِنَّ٠َا كَانَتْ لَهَا حَلْقَةٌ ٠ِنْ فِضَّةٍ وَ هِيَ عِنْدِيثُ٠َّ قَالَ إِنَّ الْعَبَّاسَ حِينَ عُذِرَ عُ٠ِلَ لَهُ قَضِيبٌ ٠َلُ لِلصِّبْيَانِ تَكُونُ فِضَّتُهُ نَحْواً ٠ِنْ عَشَرَةِ دَرَاهِ٠َرَ بِهِ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلا٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il ibn Bazi‘ who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan, al-Rida’ (a.s.), about the utensils of gold and silver which he disliked and I then said, ‘It is narrated from certain persons of our people that abu al-Hassan (a.s.), had a mirror that had a silver covering.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘No, all praise belongs to Allah.

It had only a ring of silver and it is with me.’ He then said, ‘When al- ‘Abbas was circumcised a stick with a silver covering was made for him like things that are made for children. It had about ten dirham of silver and abu al-Hassan, commanded to break it.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/66))