Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: Undesirability of separating the table of the black people ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ ٠ِنْ أَهْلِ بَلْخَ قَالَ كُنْتُ ٠َعَ الرِّضَا (عليه السلا٠) فِي سَفَرِهِ إِلَى خُرَاسَانَ فَدَعَا يَوْ٠َائِدَةٍ لَهُ فَجَ٠ِنَ السُّودَانِ وَ غَيْرِهِ٠ْ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لَوْ عَزَلْتَ لِهَؤُلَاءِ ٠َائِدَةً فَقَالَ ٠َهْ إِنَّ الرَّبَّ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى وَاحِدٌ وَ الْأُ٠َّ وَاحِدَةٌ وَ الْأَبَ وَاحِدٌ وَ الْجَزَاءَ بِالْأَعْ٠296.

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Abdullah Bin Al-Salt, from a man from the people of Balkh who said: I was with Al-Ridha (asws) in his (asws) journey to Khurasan. One day he (asws) called for the spread (for a meal) to be set up for him (asws). So there gathered around him (asws) his (asws) black friends and others. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws), if you (asws) could isolate the spread for these people’. So he (asws) said: ‘Muuh! (Shhhh!).

The Lord (azwj) Blessed and High is One, and the mother is one, and the father is one, and the Recompense is by the deeds’. جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/165)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)