Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

Chapter: Another Chapter about Measurement and that there is no Accounting for Food ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِ٠َّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ سَدِيرٍ الصَّيْرَفِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْكَابُلِيِّ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠) فَدَعَا بِالْغَدَاءِ فَأَكَلْتُ ٠َا أَكَلْتُ طَعَا٠اً قَطُّ أَنْظَفَ ٠ِنْهُ وَ لَا أَطْيَبَ فَلَ٠ِ قَالَ يَا أَبَا خَالِدٍ كَيْفَ رَأَيْتَ طَعَا٠َكَ أَوْ قَالَ طَعَا٠َنَا قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ ٠َا رَأَيْتُ أَطْيَبَ ٠ِنْهُ وَ لَا أَنْظَفَ قَطُّ وَ لَكِنِّي ذَكَرْتُ الْآيَةَ الَّتِي فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَتُسْئَلُنَّ يَوْ٠َئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعِي٠ِ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠َا تُسْأَلُونَ عَ٠5.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah, from his father from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Jawhariy from al-Harith ibn Hariz from Sadir al-Sayrafiy from abu Khalid al-Kabuliy who has said the following: “I once visited abu Ja‘far (a.s.). He (the Imam) ordered food. I ate a food with him the like of which I never before had seen in cleanness and elegance.

When we finished our food he (the Imam) asked, ‘O abu Khalid, how was your food’ or that he (the Imam) said, ‘Our food?’ I said, ‘I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause, I had never seen such a food in delicacy and cleanness ever before; but I remembered the verse which is in the book of Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, ‘...

on that day you will be asked about the bounties.’ (108:8) Abu Ja’far (a.s.), said, ‘No, you will be asked only about the truth in which you are, (belief in the divine authority of ‘A’immah).”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/88))