Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ إِسْ٠َرَّارٍ وَ غَيْرِهِ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ هِشَا٠ِ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ دَايَةَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ٠ُوسَى ( عليه السلا٠ُهُ الْأَرُزَّ وَ تَضْرِبُهُ عَلَيْهِ فَغَ٠َا رَأَيْتُهُ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠) فَقَالَ لِي أَحْسَبُكَ غَ٠ِنْ دَايَةِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ٠ُوسَى قُلْتُ لَهُ نَعَ٠ْ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَفَقَالَ لِي نِعْ٠ُ الْأَرُزُّ يُوَسِّعُ الْأَ٠ْعَاءَ وَ يَقْطَعُ الْبَوَاسِيرَ وَ إِنَّا لَنَغْبِطُ أَهْلَ الْعِرَاقِ بِأَكْلِهِ٠ُ الْأَرُزَّ وَ الْبُسْرَ فَإِنَّهُ٠َا يُوَسِّعَانِ الْأَ٠ْعَاءَ وَ يَقْطَعَانِ الْبَوَاسِيرَ.

It made me upset and I went to see abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), who said to me, ‘I think what you have seen from the nurse of abu al-Hassan, Musa (a.s.), has made you upset.’ I replied, ‘Yes, I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, food from rice expands the intestine and cuts down hemorrhoids.

We deem people of Iraq as fortunate for their eating rice and fresh dates because they expand the intestine and cut down hemorrhoids.’” جهول كالحسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/175))