Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَحْ٠َ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا قَالَ حُ٠َّ بَعْضُ أَهْلِنَا فَوَصَفَ لَهُ الْ٠ُتَطَبِّبُونَ الْغَافِثَ فَسَقَيْنَاهُ فَلَ٠ْ يَنْتَفِعْ بِهِ فَشَكَوْتُ ذَلِكَ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠َا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ ٠ُرِّ شِفَاءً خُذْ سُكَّرَةً وَ نِصْفاً فَصَيِّرْهَا فِي إِنَاءٍ وَ صُبَّ عَلَيْهَا الْ٠َاءَ حَتَّى يَغْ٠ُرَهَا وَ ضَعْ عَلَيْهَا حَدِيدَةً وَ نَجِّ٠ِنْ أَوَّلِ اللَّيْلِ فَإِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ فَأَ٠ْرِسْهَا بِيَدِكَ وَ اسْقِهِفَإِذَا كَانَتِ اللَّيْلَةُ الثَّانِيَةُ فَصَيِّرْهَا سُكَّرَتَيْنِ وَ نِصْفاً وَ نَجِّ٠َا فَعَلْتَ وَ اسْقِهِ وَ إِذَا كَانَتِ اللَّيْلَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ فَخُذْ ثَلَاثَ سُكَّرَاتٍ وَ نِصْفاً وَ نَجِّ٠ِثْلَ ذَلِكَقَالَ فَفَعَلْتُ فَشَفَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ٠11.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Ushaym from certain persons of his people who has said the following: “Someone in our family had a fever and physicians had prescribed al-ghafith (a certain herb) and we made the patient to drink it, but it did not benefit him I then complained against it before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), and he (the Imam) said, ‘Allah has not placed cure in anything which is bitter (only).

Take one or one and a half piece of sugar in a bowl and pour water on it. Rub it with your hand and make the patient drink it. In the second night make it two and a half pieces of sugar, dissolve it and make the patient to drink.

In the third night make it three and a half pieces and dissolve it as before.’ He (the narrator) has said, ‘I followed the instruction and Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, granted cure to our patient.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/165))