Response to Sneezing
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 4|Chapter 15
21ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْكُوفِيُّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) عَنْ قَوْلِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِنَّ أَنْكَرَ الأصْواتِ لَصَوْتُ الْحَمِيرِ قَالَ الْعَطْسَةُ الْقَبِيحَةُ.
21. Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Kufi has narrated from Ali ibn al-Hassan from Ali ibn b t from his Uncle, Ya’qub n Salim from abu Bakr al-Hadrami who has said the following: “Once I asked Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام about the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, ‘The most undesirable voice is the voice of donkeys.’ (31:19) The Imam said, ‘It is a bad sneezing.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/558)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 166