Undesirability of separating the table of the black people
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 296
Al-Kāfi
Volume 8, Book 1, Chapter 296
Undesirability of separating the table of the black people
1 hadithعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَلْخَ قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ الرِّضَا (عليه السلام) فِي سَفَرِهِ إِلَى خُرَاسَانَ فَدَعَا يَوْماً بِمَائِدَةٍ لَهُ فَجَمَعَ عَلَيْهَا مَوَالِيَهُ مِنَ السُّودَانِ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لَوْ عَزَلْتَ لِهَؤُلَاءِ مَائِدَةً فَقَالَ مَهْ إِنَّ الرَّبَّ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى وَاحِدٌ وَ الْأُمَّ وَاحِدَةٌ وَ الْأَبَ وَاحِدٌ وَ الْجَزَاءَ بِالْأَعْمَالِ.
296. 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 عليه الصلاة والسلام in his عليه الصلاة والسلام journey to Khurasan. One day he عليه الصلاة والسلام called for the spread (for a meal) to be set up for him عليه الصلاة والسلام. So there gathered around him عليه الصلاة والسلام his عليه الصلاة والسلام black friends and others. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you عليه الصلاة والسلام, if you عليه الصلاة والسلام could isolate the spread for these people’. So he عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘Muuh! (Shhhh!). The Lord عز وجل Blessed and High is One, and the mother is one, and the father is one, and the Recompense is by the deeds’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/165)
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