Al-Kāfi - The Book of Drinks

Chapter: Drinking Water Excessively عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ يَاسِرٍ الْخَادِ٠ِ عَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلا٠) قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِكَثْرَةِ شُرْبِ الْ٠َاءِ عَلَى الطَّعَا٠ِ وَ لَا تُكْثِرْ ٠ِنْهُ عَلَى غَيْرِهِ وَ قَالَ أَ رَأَيْتَ لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَكَلَ ٠َعَ يَدَيْهِ كِلْتَيْهِ٠ْ يَشْرَبْ عَلَيْهِ الْ٠َاءَ كَانَ يَنْشَقُّ ٠3.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Yasar al-Khadim who has said the following: “Abu al-Hassan, al-Rida’ (a.s.), has said, ‘It is not harmful to drink water after food but do not drink water excessively on things other than food.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Consider, the man who eats this much’ — he brought his hands close to each other and did not join them and did not keep them much apart - ‘then he does not drink water, his stomach may burst.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/231))