Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ سَلَ٠َةَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ ٠َّدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠) قَالَ لَبَنُ الشَّاةِ السَّوْدَاءِ خَيْرٌ ٠ْرَاوَيْنِ وَ لَبَنُ الْبَقَرِ الْحَ٠ِنْ لَبَنِ سَوْدَاوَيْنِ. 2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Salmah ibn al-Khattab from ‘Abbad ibn Ya’qub from ‘Ubayd ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Qays who has said the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘The milk of black sheep is better than that of the red ones; and the milk of red cows is better than that of the black ones.”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/167))