The Eggplant (Aubergine)
Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 5|Chapter 128
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الثَّالِثِ ( عليه السلام ) لِبَعْضِ قَهَارِمَتِهِ اسْتَكْثِرُوا لَنَا مِنَ الْبَاذَنْجَانِ فَإِنَّهُ حَارٌّ فِي وَقْتِ الْحَرَارَةِ وَ بَارِدٌ فِي وَقْتِ الْبُرُودَةِ مُعْتَدِلٌ فِي الْأَوْقَاتِ كُلِّهَا جَيِّدٌ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ.
2. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from certain persons of our people who have said the following: “Abu al-Hassan, al-Thalith عليه السلام, would say to certain ones of his workers, ‘Bring more eggplant for us because it is warm in hot season and it is cool in cold season and it is balanced in all seasons. It is fine in all conditions/”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/219)
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