Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hannan who said, ‘I was with Abu Abdullah -asws upon the food-spread, so he -asws inclined upon the vegetables and I abstained from it due to an illness which was with me. So he -asws turned towards me and said, ‘O Hanaan!
Do you not know that Amir Al-Momineen -asws was never brought a platter except that upon it were vegetables?’ I said, ‘And why, may I be sacrificed for you -asws ?’ So, Imam -asws said: ‘Because the hearts of the Believers are green, and it yearns for its forms’ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from one of our companions, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Al Samma, from Shuayb, from Abu Baseer, from; Abu Abdullah -asws narrates that Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘The best of the sauces is the vinegar, it breaks the bitterness, and extinguishes the paleness, and revives the heart ’.
[14] عَنْهُ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَيْضِ قَالَ أَكَلْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع مَرَقَةً بِعَدَسٍ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ الْعَدَسَ قَدَّسَ عَلَيْهِ ثَمَانُونَ نَبِيّاً قَالَ كَذَبُوا لَا وَ اللَّهِ وَ لَا عِشْرُونَ نَبِيّاً . From him, from Dawood Bin Is’haq Al Haza’a, from Muhammad Bin Al Qayz who said, ‘I ate lentil broth in the presence of Abu Abdullah -asws , so I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws !
They (people) are saying that seventy Prophets -as have sanctified upon the lentils’. The Imam -asws said: ‘They are lying! No, by Allah -azwj , not even twenty Prophets -as ’. وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ يُرِقُّ الْقَلْبَ وَ يُسْرِعُ الدَّمْعَةَ . And it is reported that it softens the heart and accelerates the tears’.
[15] الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سَعْدَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الطِّيبُ يَشُدُّ الْقَلْبَ . Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Is’haq, from sa’dan, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws says that Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘ The perfume strengthens the heart’ .