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Chapter: The Merits of the Euphrates River, Drinking from Its Water, and Performing Ghusl in It َّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ الْحِ٠ْيَرِيِّ عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَ٠َّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ حَنَانِ بْنِ سَدِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَكِي٠ِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ يَقُولُ إِنَّ ٠َلَكاً يَهْبِطُ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ ٠ِسْكِ الْجَنَّةِ فَيَطْرَحُهَا فِي الْفُرَاتِ وَ ٠َشْرِقٍ وَ لَا فِي ٠َغْرِبٍ [فِي شَرْقٍ وَ لَا غَرْبٍ] أَعْظَ٠7.

Muḥammad ibn ‘Abdillāh narrated to me from his father ‘Abdillāh ibn Ja’far Al-Ḥimyari, from Aḥmad ibn Abī ‘Abdillāh, from his father, from someone who narrated to him, from Ḥanān ibn Sadīr, from his father, from Hakīm ibn Jubayr, who said: ‘Ali ibn Ḥusain (Imam Sajjād (a.s.)) said: Every night an angel comes down and drops three particles of musk from the musk of Paradise in the Euphrates River.

There is no river more blessed than the Euphrates (River) anywhere in the east or the west.