Eating Pieces of Food that Fall on the Table-spread
Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 5|Chapter 49
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مِهْزَمٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ شَكَا رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا يَلْقَى مِنْ وَجَعِ الْخَاصِرَةِ فَقَالَ مَا يَمْنَعُكَ مِنْ أَكْلِ مَا يَقَعُ مِنَ الْخِوَانِ .
7. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from ibn Khalid from Muhammad ibn Ali from Ibrahim ibn Mehzam who has said the following: “Abu al-Hassan عليه السلام, has said that once a man complained before abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, against his lower back pain. He (the Imam) said, ‘Why do you not eat pieces of food that fall on the table-spread/”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/118)
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