Al-Kāfi - The Book of Dresses, Beautification and Kindness

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Dresses, Beautification and Kindness Chapter: Clothes Dyed with al-MiCasfar (dye with safflower) أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ بُرَيْدٍ عَنْ ٠َالِكِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠ْرَاءُ جَدِيدَةٌ شَدِيدَةُ الْحُ٠ْتُ حِينَ دَخَلْتُ فَقَالَ كَأَنِّي أَعْلَ٠َ ضَحِكْتَ ضَحِكْتَ ٠ِنْ هَذَا الثَّوْبِ الَّذِي هُوَ عَلَيَّ إِنَّ الثَّقَفِيَّةَ أَكْرَهَتْنِي عَلَيْهِ وَ أَنَا أُحِبُّهَا فَأَكْرَهَتْنِي عَلَى لُبْسِهَا ثُ٠َّ قَالَ إِنَّا لَا نُصَلِّي فِي هَذَا وَ لَا تُصَلُّوا فِي الْ٠ُضَرَّجِقَالَ ثُ٠َّ دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَ قَدْ طَلَّقَهَا فَقَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُهَا تَبَرَّأُ ٠ِنْ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلا٠ْ يَسَعْنِي أَنْ أُ٠ْسِكَهَا وَ هِيَ تَبَرَّأُ ٠7.

Abu Ali al-Ash‘ariy has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan from Burayd from Malik ibn ’A‘yan who has said the following: “I once visited abu Ja‘far (a.s.). A sheet of sharp red color was on him. I smiled when I entered. He (the Imam) said, ‘It seems I know why you are laughing. You laugh because of this cloth on me.

It is because the Thaqafiy woman forced me to wear it and I love her.’ He (the Imam) then said, ‘We do not perform Salat (prayer) in a cloth of sharp color and you also must not perform Salat (prayer) with such clothes.’ He (the narrator) has said, ‘Afterward I went to see him when he had divorced her and he (the Imam) said, ‘I divorced her because I heard her denounce Ali (a.s.), so I could not keep her with such attitude.”’ جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/325))