Chapter on Additions
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 4|Book 2|Chapter 33
سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ قَالَ: كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي اَلْحَسَنِ اَلرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ قَوْمٍ عِنْدَنَا يُصَلُّونَ وَلاَ يَصُومُونَ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ وَأَنَا أَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِمْ يَحْصُدُونَ لِي فَإِذَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ إِلَى اَلْحَصَادِ لَمْ يُجِيبُوا حَتَّى أُطْعِمَهُمْ وَ هُمْ يَجِدُونَ مَنْ يُطْعِمُهُمْ فَيَذْهَبُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَيَدَعُونِي وَ أَنَا أَضِيقُ مِنْ إِطْعَامِهِمْ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فَكَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ إِلَيَّ بِخَطِّهِ» أَعْرِفُهُ أَطْعِمْهُمْ«.
Sa’ad ibn Abdullah, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from al-Husayn ibn Said, from al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Faddal, who said:
I (narrator) wrote to Abu al-Hasan al-Ridha عليه السلام, peace be upon him, asking Imam عليه السلام about ‘a group among us who pray but do not fast the month of Ramadan, and I need them to harvest for me. So when I call them to the harvest, they do not respond until I feed them, while they find someone who will feed them, so they go to him and leave me, and I feel constrained about feeding them in the month of Ramadan.’ So the Imam عليه السلام, peace be upon him, wrote to me in his handwriting: “I know it. Feed them.”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 392
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