Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār

وبهذا الاسناد، عن أحمد بن أبي عبد الله، عن الحسن بن علي، عن أحمد بن عائذ، عن ابن سلمة - وهو أبو خديجة واسمه سالم بن مكرم - عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: الحجامة على الرأس على شبر من طرف الأنف وفتر بين الحاجبين ، فكان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يسميها بالمنقذة. وفي حديث آخر قال: كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يحتجم على رأسه ويسميها المغيثة أو المنقذة.

2. With this chain of narrators, from Ahmad bin Abi Abdillah, from Hasan bin Ali, from Ahmad bin ‘A’idh, from Ibn Salama, and he is Abu Khadija, and his name is Salem bin Makram, from Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, that he said: Blood-letting on the head is performed by a shibr [1] from the tip of the nose (vertically) and a fitr [2] between the eyebrows. The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, used to call it the saving. In another narration, he said: The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, used to perform blood-letting on his head and name it as the refuging or the saving.

أبي - رحمه الله - قال: حدثنا عبد الله جعفر الحميري، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحسين بن سعيد، عن عثمان بن عيسى، عن منصور بن حازم، عن إبراهيم ابن معرض، قال: قلت لأبي جعفر عليه السلام: إن أهل الكوفة يروون، عن علي عليه السلام أنه كان بالكوفة فبال حتى رغا ثم توضأ ثم مسح على نعليه ثم قال: هذا وضوء من لم يحدث. فقال: نعم، قد فعل ذلك. قال: فأي حدث أحدث من البول؟ فقال: إنما يعني بذلك التعدي في الوضوء أن يزيد على حد الوضوء.

1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Abdullah bin Ja’far al-Himyari, from Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa, from Hussain bin Sa’eed, from Uthman bin Isa, from Mansur bin Hazem, from Ibrahim ibn Ma’ridh, that he said: I said to Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him: The people of Kufa are narrating from Ali, peace be upon him, that he was in Kufa and urinated until scum appeared, then performed Wudu’[1], then wiped on his sandals and then said: This is the Wudu of the one who does not invalidate it. He said: Yes, he did that. He said: Then what act of invalidation is more invalidating than urinating? So he said: By that he only meant excessiveness in performing Wudu, that one adds onto the limitation of Wudu.

أبي - رحمه الله - قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن يعقوب بن يزيد، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن هشام بن سالم، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: كان علي بن الحسين صلوات الله عليهما يقول: ويل لمن غلبت آحاده أعشار. فقلت له: وكيف هذا؟ فقال: أما سمعت الله عز وجل يقول: " من جاء بالحسنة فله عشر أمثالها ومن جاء بالسيئة فلا يجزي إلا مثلها " فالحسنة الواحدة إذا عملها كتبت له عشرا، والسيئة الواحدة إذا عملها كتبت له واحدة فنعوذ بالله ممن يرتكب في يوم واحد عشر سيئات ولا تكون له حسنة واحدة فتغلب حسناته سيئاته.

1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ya’qoub bin Yazid, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Hisham bin Salem, from Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, that he said: Ali bin Hussain, Allah’s blessings be upon them both, used to say: Woe to the one whose singulars overcome his tens. So I said to him: And how is that? He said: Have you not heard Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, say: «The one who brings a good deed, to him is ten the like of it, and the one who brings a misdeed, he will not be rewarded except by the like of it» (6:160)? Hence, if one performs one good deed, ten will be written for him, and if one performs one misdeed, one will be written for him. Thus, we seek refuge in Allah from the one who performs, on one day, ten misdeeds and does not (even) have one good deed by which his good deeds can overcome his misdeeds.

أبي ومحمد بن الحسن - رحمهما الله - قالا: حدثنا أحمد بن إدريس، ومحمد بن يحيى العطار، عن محمد بن أحمد، عن علي بن محمد، عن رجل، عن سليمان بن حفص المروزي قال: قال أبو الحسن عليه السلام: الغسل صاع من ماء والوضوء مد من ماء وصاع النبي صلى الله عليه وآله خمسة أمداد والمد وزن مائتي وثمانين درهما والدرهم وزن ستة دوانيق والدانق ستة حبات والحبة وزن حبتي شعير من أوساط الحب لا من صغاره ولا من كباره.

1. My father and Muhammed bin Hasan, may Allah grant them both mercy, both said: We were told by Ahmad bin Idrees, and Muhammed bin Yahya al-‘Attar, from Muhammed bin Ahmad, from Ali bin Muhammed, from a man, from Sulayman bin Hafs al-Marouzi, that he said: Abu’l-Hasan, peace be upon him, said: Ghusl [1] is (performed with) a ssaa’ of water, and Wudu is (performed with) a mudd of water. The ssaa’ of the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, is (consisting of) five mudds, and a mudd is the weight of two hundred and eighty dirhams, and one dirham is the weight of six dawaneeq [2], and one daniq is (consisting of) six kernels, and one kernel is (consisting of) two seeds of barley, from the average seeds, not from their small ones nor big ones.

وبهذا الاسناد، عن محمد بن أحمد، عن جعفر بن إبراهيم بن محمد الهمداني - قال: وكان معنا حاجا - قال: كتبت إلى أبي الحسن عليه السلام على يد أبي: جعلت فداك إن أصحابنا اختلفوا في الصاع، بعضهم يقول: الفطرة بصاع المدينة، وبعضهم يقول: بصاع العراق. فكتب إلي: الصاع ستة أرطال بالمدني وتسعة أرطال بالعراقي. قال: وأخبرني فقال: إنه بالوزن يكون ألفا ومائة وسبعين وزنا.

2. With this chain of narrators, from Muhammed bin Ahmad, from Ja’far bin Ibrahim bin Muhammed al-Hamdani, that he said, and he was with us, performing pilgrimage. He said: I wrote to Abu’l-Hasan, peace be upon him, on the hands of my father: May I be sacrificed for you, our companions have disputed with regards to (the measurement of) a ssaa’. Some of them say that (the alms tax of) the Fitra is (given by the amount of) a ssaa’ of Medina, and some of them say the ssaa’ of Iraq. Then he wrote to me: A ssaa’ is (consisting of) six pounds by the Medinian standard, and nine pounds by the Iraqi standard. He said: He also informed me and said: In measurement, it is one thousand and one hundred and seventy measures.

وبهذا الاسناد، عن محمد بن أحمد، عن محمد بن عبد الجبار، عن أبي القاسم الكوفي أنه جاء بمد وذكر أن ابن أبي عمير أعطاه ذلك المد وقال: أعطانيه فلان رجل من أصحاب أبي عبد الله عليه السلام وقال: أعطانيه أبو عبد الله عليه السلام وقال: هذا مد النبي صلى الله عليه وآله فعيرناه فوجدناه أربعة أمداد وهو قفيز وربع بقفيزنا هذا.

3. With this chain of narrators, from Muhammed bin Ahmad, from Muhammed bin Abdul-Jabbar, from Abu’l-Qasem al-Kufi, that he came with a mudd and mentioned that Ibn Abi ‘Umayr gave him that mudd and said: It was given to me by such-a-person, a man from the companions of Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, and he said: It was given to me by Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, and he said: This is the (measurement of the) mudd of the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family. So we measured it and found it to be (equal to) to four mudds, and that one and a quarter qafeez [1], as is measured by this qafeez of ours.

حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن الهيثم العجلي - رضي الله عنه - قال: حدثنا أحمد بن يحيى بن زكريا القطان، قال: حدثنا بكر بن عبد الله بن حبيب، قال: حدثنا تميم بن بهلول، عن أبيه، عن علي بن غراب، قال: حدثني خير الجعافر جعفر بن محمد، عن أبيه محمد بن علي، عن أبيه علي بن الحسين، عن أبيه الحسين بن علي، عن أبيه علي بن أبي طالب عليهم السلام قال: لعن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله النامصة والمنتمصة والواشرة والمستوشرة والواصلة والمستوصلة والواشمة والمستوشمة.

1. We were told by Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Haitham al-‘Ajli, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: We were told by Ahmad bin Yahya bin Zakariya al-Qattan, that he said: We were told by Bikr bin Abdullah bin Habib, that he said: We were told by Tamim bin Buhlul, from his father, from Ali bin Ghurab, that he said: I was told by the best of all who have been named Ja’far, (that is) Ja’far bin Muhammed, from his father, Muhammed bin Ali, from his father, Ali bin Hussain, from his father, Hussain bin Ali, from his father, Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon them, that he said: The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, cursed the namisa, muntamisa, washira, mustawshira, wasila, mustawsila, washima and the mustawshima.

حدثنا الحسين بن إبراهيم بن أحمد بن هشام المكتب، قال حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن إبراهيم بن زياد الكرخي قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول: لعن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله الواصلة والمستوصلة يعني الزانية والقوادة.

1. We were told by Hussain bin Ibrahim bin Ahmad bin Hisham al-Maktab, that he said: We were told by Ali bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Muhammed bin Abi ‘Umayr, from Ibrahim bin Ziyad al-Karkhi, that he said: I heard Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, say: The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, cursed the wasila and the mustawsila, meaning the female fornicator and the female procurer.

حدثني أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار- رضي الله عنه - قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن علي بن أبي حمزة، عن أبي بصير، عن الصادق جعفر بن محمد، عن آبائه، عن علي عليهم السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: إن في الجنة غرفا يرى ظاهرها من باطنها وباطنها من ظاهرها يسكنها من أمتي من أطاب الكلام، وأطعم الطعام، وأفشى السلام، وأدام الصيام، وصلى بالليل والناس نيام، فقال علي عليه السلام: يا رسول الله ومن يطيق هذا من أمتك؟ فقال عليه السلام: يا علي أو ما تدري ما إطابة الكلام؟ من قال إذا أصبح وأمسى: " سبحان الله والحمد لله ولا إله إلا الله والله أكبر) - عشر مرات -، وإطعام الطعام نفقه الرجل على عياله، وأما إدامة الصيام فهو أن يصوم الرجل شهر رمضان وثلاثة أيام في كل شهر يكتب له صوم الدهر، وأما الصلاة بالليل والناس نيام فمن صلى المغرب وصلاة العشاء الآخرة وصلاة الغداة في المسجد في جماعة فكأنما أحيا الليل كله، وإفشاء السلام أن لا يبخل بالسلام على أحد من المسلمين.

1. I was told by Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Yahya al-‘Attar, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa, from his father, from Muhammed bin Abi ‘Umayr, from Ali bin Abi Hamza, from Abu Baseer, from al-Sadiq, Ja’far bin Muhammed, from his fathers, from Ali, peace be upon him, that he said: The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: Indeed, in Paradise there are rooms from whom their outside is visible from the inside, their inside from their outside. They are inhabited by those from my nation who beautify speech, feed with food, spread peace, continuously fasted and prayed at night while people were asleep. Then Ali, peace be upon him, said: O Messenger of Allah, and who can handle this from your nation? He, peace be upon him, then said: O Ali, do you not know what beautifying speech is? (It is) The one who says, when he wakes up at the morning and is to sleep at night: «Glory be to Allah, and praise be to Allah, and there is no god but Allah, and Allah is the Greater» ten times. Feeding with food is a man’s expenditure towards his family. As for continuously fasting, it is that a man fasts the month of Ramadhan and three days of every month, by which the fasting of a lifetime is written for him (in rewards). As for praying at night while people are asleep, it is that the one who prays (the prayer of) the sundown, the prayer of the last evening and the prayer of the early morning in a mosque in congregation, and it will be as if he has revived all the night (in prayer). The spreading of peace is that one is not stingy with sending peace upon anyone of the Muslims.

أبي - رحمه الله - قال: حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن النوفلي، عن السكوني، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: قيل لأمير المؤمنين عليه السلام: ما الزهد في الدنيا؟ قال: تنكب حرامها.

1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Ali bin Ibrahim, from his father, from al-Nawfali, from al-Sukuni, from Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, that he said: It was said to the Commander of the Believers, peace be upon him: What is abstinence in this world? He said: Avoiding from what is forbidden of it.