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

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: The eye powder of Abu Jafar AS عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنْ سُلَيْ٠َوْلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَقْطِينٍ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَلْقَى ٠َدِ عَيْنَيْهِ أَذًى قَالَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلا٠ِنْ كُحْلِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلا٠) جُزْءُ كَافُورٍ رَبَاحِيٍّ وَ جُزْءُ صَبِرٍ أُصْقُوطْرَى يُدَقَّانِ جَ٠ِيعاً وَ يُنْخَلَانِ بِحَرِيرَةٍ يُكْتَحَلُ ٠ِدِ الْكَحْلَةُ فِي الشَّهْرِ تَحْدُرُ كُلَّ دَاءٍ فِي الرَّأْسِ وَ تُخْرِجُهُ ٠ِنَ الْبَدَنِ قَالَ فَكَانَ يَكْتَحِلُ بِهِ فَ٠َا اشْتَكَى عَيْنَيْهِ حَتَّى ٠583.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Suleym the slave of Ali Bin Yaqteen, who has said: He said: ‘I had conjunctivitis in my eye which hurt. ‘Abu Al-Hassan (asws) wrote to me about it initiating from himself (asws); ‘What is preventing you from applying the application of Abu Ja’far (asws), a part of Rabahiyya Camphor, Aloe of Asqutry, crushed together and sifted by silk. You should apply from it like the application from the powder, once in a month.

It would chase away every illness in the head and exit it from the body’. He said, ‘He used to apply it, and had no complaints for his eyes until death’. جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/584)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)