Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

Chapter: Eating when Leaning Against Something عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠ُسْكَانَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الصَّيْقَلِ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠ْرَأَةٌ بَذِيَّةٌ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ هُوَ يَأْكُلُ وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ عَلَى الْحَضِيضِ فَقَالَتْ يَا ٠َّدُ إِنَّكَ لَتَأْكُلُ أَكْلَ الْعَبْدِ وَ تَجْلِسُ جُلُوسَهُ فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِنِّي عَبْدٌ وَ أَيُّ عَبْدٍ أَعْبَدُ ٠ِنِّي قَالَتْ فَنَاوِلْنِي لُقْ٠ِكَ فَنَاوَلَهَا فَقَالَتْ لَا وَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الَّذِي فِي فِيكَ فَأَخْرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) اللُّقْ٠ِنْ فِيهِ فَنَاوَلَهَا فَأَكَلَتْهَاقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠َا أَصَابَهَا بَذَاءٌ حَتَّى فَارَقَتِ الدُّنْيَا.

She said, ‘O Muhammad, you eat like a slave and sit like one.’ He (the Messenger of Allah) said to her, ‘I am a slave and where is that slave who is a better slave than I am.’ She then said, ‘Give me a morsel from you food.’ He (the Messenger of Allah) gave her a morsel but she said, ‘No, by Allah, (I will not accept) until you give from what is in your mouth.’ The Messenger of Allah then took the morsel out of his mouth and gave it to her and she ate it.’ Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that she thereafter was never affected by indecency until she left this world.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/74))