The Excellence of Bread

11. Ali ibn Muhammad Bandar and others have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl al- Nawfaliy from al-Fadl ibn Yunus who has said the following: “I once had lunch with abu al-Hassan عليه السلام, and the dish was brought with bread underneath the dish. He (the Imam) said, ‘You must revere bread and do not allow it to be placed under the dish.’ He (the Imam) then said to me to command the slave to take the bread from underneath the dish.”’