He -asws said: ‘When you touch it, so wash your hand’.
He -asws said: ‘When you touch it, so wash your hand’. [22] Addendum: 141- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ أَنَّ العَلَاءَ بْنَ سَيَابَةَ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع وَ هُوَ يُصَلِّي فَجَاءَ هُدْهُدٌ فَوَقَعَ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ حَتَّى سَلَّمَ وَ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْهَا فَقُلْتُ جِئْتُ لِأَسْأَلَكَ فَرَأَيْتُ مَا هُوَ أَعْجَبُ قَالَ مَا هُوَ قُلْتُ مَا صَنَعَ الْهُدْهُدُ (The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported that Al A’ala Bin Sayabah said, ‘A man came to Abu Abdullah asws and he asws was praying Salat.
A hoopoe bird came and landed by his asws head, until he asws performed Salaam and turn towards it. I said, ‘I have come to ask you asws . I saw what is stranger’. He asws said: ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘What the hoopoe did’.
قَالَ جَاءَنِي فَشَكَا إِلَيَّ حَيَّةً تَأْكُلُ فِرَاخَهُ فَدَعَوْتُ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهَا فَأَمَاتَهَا قُلْتُ يَا مَوْلَايَ إِنِّي لَا يَعِيشُ لِي وَلَدٌ وَ كُلَّمَا وَلَدَتِ امْرَأَتِي مَاتَ وَلَدُهَا He asws said: ‘It came to me asws , complaining to me asws of a snake devouring its chick, so I asws supplicated to Allah azwj against it, and He azwj Caused it to die’. I said, ‘O my Master asws ! I am such that no child of mine lives, and every time my wife gives birth, her child dies’.
قَالَ هَذَا لَيْسَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْجِنْسِ وَ لَكِنْ إِذَا رَجَعْتَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِكَ فَإِنَّهُ سَتَدْخُلُ كَلْبَةٌ إِلَيْكَ فَتُرِيدُ امْرَأَتُكَ أَنْ تُطْعِمَهَا فَمُرْهَا أَنْ لَا تُطْعِمَهَا فَقُلْ لِلْكَلْبَةِ إِنَّ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَقُولَ أَمِيطِي عَنَّا لَعَنَكِ اللَّهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَعِيشُ وَلَدُكَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَعَاشَ أَوْلَادِي وَ خَلَّفْتُ غِلْمَاناً ثَلَاثَةً.
He asws said: ‘This isn’t from that genus, but when you return to your house, a female dog would enter to you, intending that your wife feeds it. Instruct her not to feed it. Say to the dog, ‘Abu Abdullah asws has instructed me to be saying, ‘Pull away from us, may Allah azwj Curse you!’ So your child will live if Allah azwj so Desires’. My children lived, and I left three boys behind’’.
[23] وَ مِنْهُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: سُئِلَ عَنِ الْكِلَابِ فَقَالَ كُلُّ أَسْوَدَ بَهِيمٍ وَ كُلُّ أَحْمَرَ بَهِيمٍ وَ كُلُّ أَبْيَضَ بَهِيمٍ فَذَلِكَ خَلْقٌ مِنَ الْكِلَابِ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ مَا كَانَ أَبْلَقَ فَهُوَ مَسْخٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ.
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