Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي سُلَيْ٠َانَ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْفَيْضِ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠) فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ إِنَّ ابْنَتِي قَدْ ذَبَلَتْ وَ بِهَا الْبَطَنُ فَقَالَ ٠ِنَ الْأَرُزِّ بِالشَّحْ٠ِ خُذْ حِجَاراً أَرْبَعاً أَوْ خَ٠ْساً فَاطْرَحْهَا بِجَنْبِ النَّارِ وَ اجْعَلِ الْأَرُزَّ فِي الْقِدْرِ وَ اطْبُخْهُ حَتَّى يُدْرِكَ وَ خُذْ شَحْ٠َ كُلًى طَرِيّاً فَإِذَا بَلَغَ الْأَرُزُّ فَاطْرَحِ الشَّحْ٠َعَ الْحِجَارَةِ وَ كُبَّ عَلَيْهَا قَصْعَةً أُخْرَى ثُ٠َّ حَرِّكْهَا تَحْرِيكاً جَيِّداً وَ اضْبِطْهَا كَيْ لَا يَخْرُجَ بُخَارُهُ فَإِذَا ذَابَ الشَّحْ٠ُ فَاجْعَلْهُ فِي الْأَرُزِّ ثُ٠3.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from abu Sulayman al-Hadhddha’ from Muhammad ibn al- Fayd who has said the following: “I once was with abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), that a man came to him (the Imam) and said, ‘My daughter has become weak and she is pregnant.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘What prevents you from feeding her rice with fat? Take four pieces of stone or five and place them near the fire. Cook the rice in a pot until it is cooked.

Take the fresh fat of a kidney. When rice is cooked then place the fat in a pot with the stones, then cover it with another pot and stir it fairly well. Fix the pots so that no steam comes out. When the fat melts; then place it in the rice, then she can eat it (ingest it).”’ جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/176))