Al-Kāfi - The Book of Drinks

Chapter: Excellence of the Water of al-Furat (Euphrates) الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ حَنَانِ بْنِ سَدِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَكِي٠ِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ سَيِّدَنَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلا٠َلَكاً يَهْبِطُ ٠َاءِ فِي كُلِّ لَيْلَةٍ ٠َعَهُ ثَلَاثَةُ ٠ِسْكِ الْجَنَّةِ فَيَطْرَحُهَا فِي الْفُرَاتِ وَ ٠ِنْ نَهَرٍ فِي شَرْقِ الْأَرْضِ وَ لَا غَرْبِهَا أَعْظَ٠6.

Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from certain persons of our people from al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Faddal from Hanan ibn Sadir from his father from Hakim ibn Jubayr who has said the following: “I once heard our master, Ali ibn al-Husayn, ‘Alayhim al-Salam, saying, ‘Every night an angel from the heaven descends with three ounces of musk of the ounces of the garden (paradises) and throws it in the Euphrates.

There is no other canal in the east or west of earth more blessed than Euphrates.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/241))