The Viola Oil
Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 7|Chapter 58
أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا يَأْتِينَا مِنْ نَاحِيَتِكُمْ شَيْءٌ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْنَا مِنَ الْبَنَفْسَجِ .
3. Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Yunus ibn Ya‘qub who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, once said, ‘From your area no other thing comes more likable to us than viola.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/430)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 224