Al-Kāfi - The Book of Domestic Animals

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Domestic Animals ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَ٠َّالِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠) يَا صَفْوَانُ اشْتَرِ لِي جَ٠َلًا وَ خُذْهُ أَشْوَهَ فَإِنَّهُ أَطْوَلُ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَعْ٠َاراً فَاشْتَرَيْتُ لَهُ جَ٠اً فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهِ.وَ فِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ قَالَ اشْتَرِ السُّودَ الْقِبَاحَ فَإِنَّهَا أَطْوَلُ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَعْ٠8.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from al-Hajj al from Safwan al-Jammal who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), once said, ‘Buy a camel for me, an ugly looking one, because it lives longer.’ I then bought for him (the Imam) a camel for eighty dirham and brought it to him (the Imam).” In another Hadith it is said that he (the Imam) said, ‘Buy the black and ugly looking one because it lives longer.’ صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/462))