Pets For Home

Summary:

In our modern day living, it is difficult to find time for leisure and hobbies and people mostly interact with others through social media.  In the past people used to keep pets at home but these days the choice is limited as it’s difficult to find time, space and to afford pet expenses.  Here we present some Ahadith of Masomeen^-asws related to keeping pets at homes as well as those which are inauspicious and should not be kept.

Introduction:

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ فِي بَيْتِهِ طَيْراً فَلْيَتَّخِذْ وَرَشَاناً فَإِنَّهُ أَكْثَرُ شَيْئاً لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ أَكْثَرُ تَسْبِيحاً وَ هُوَ طَيْرٌ يُحِبُّنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Ismail Bin Mihran, from Sayf Bin Ameyra, from Abu Bakr Al hazramy,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘The one who takes a bird to be in his house, so let him take a Al-Warshaan for it is a thing which frequents in the mentioning of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and frequents in Glorification, and it is a bird beloved to us^-asws the People^-asws of the Household’.[1]

Inauspicious Bird Ring-dove (Fakhta)

عَنْهُ عَنِ الْجَامُورَانِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ سَيْفٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ نَهَى ابْنَهُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ اتِّخَاذِ الْفَاخِتَةِ وَ قَالَ إِنْ كُنْتَ لَا بُدَّ مُتَّخِذاً فَاتَّخِذْ وَرَشَاناً فَإِنَّهُ كَثِيرُ الذِّكْرِ لِلَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى .

From him, from Al Jamourany, from Ibn Abu Hamza, from sayf, from Is’haq Bin Ammar, from Abu Baseer,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws that he^-asws forbade his^-asws son Ismail from taking the ring-dove (Fakhta), and said: ‘If it was inevitable that you take, so take Al-Warshaan, for it frequents in the mentioning of Allah^-azwj Blessed and High’.[2]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ الْأَصْبَهَانِيِّ قَالَ أَهْدَيْتُ إِلَى إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) صُلْصُلًا فَدَخَلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَلَمَّا رَآهَا قَالَ هَذَا الطَّيْرَ الْمَشُومَ أَخْرِجُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَقُولُ فَقَدْتُكُمْ فَقَدْتُكُمْ فَافْقِدُوهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَفْقِدَكُمْ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Bakr Bin Salih, from Muhammad Bin Ab Hamza, from Usman Al Asbahany who said,

‘I gifted a Sulsula to Ismail, son of Abu Abdullah^-asws. So Abu Abdullah^-asws came over, and when he^-asws saw it, said: ‘This is the inauspicious bird. Exit it, for it is saying, ‘You are all lost, you are all lost!’ Therefore lose it before it loses you all’.[3]

عَنْهُ عَنِ الْجَامُورَانِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( صلوات الله عليه ) فَقَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ اذْهَبْ بِنَا إِلَى إِسْمَاعِيلَ نَعُودُهُ وَ كَانَ شَاكِياً فَقُمْنَا وَ دَخَلْنَا عَلَى إِسْمَاعِيلَ فَإِذَا فِي مَنْزِلِهِ فَاخِتَةٌ فِي قَفَصٍ تَصِيحُ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَا بُنَيَّ مَا يَدْعُوكَ إِلَى إِمْسَاكِ هَذِهِ الْفَاخِتَةِ أَ وَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّهَا مَشُومَةٌ أَ وَ مَا تَدْرِي مَا تَقُولُ قَالَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ لَا قَالَ إِنَّمَا تَدْعُو عَلَى أَرْبَابِهَا فَتَقُولُ فَقَدْتُكُمْ فَقَدْتُكُمْ فَأَخْرِجُوهُ .

From him, from Al Jamourany, from Ibn Abu Hamza, from Sayf Bin Ameyra, from Is’haq Bin Ammar, from Abu Baseer who said,

‘I went over to Abu Abdullah^-asws, so he^-asws said to me: ‘O Abu Muhammad! Come with us to Ismail to visit him, and he has been complaining’. So we arose and went over to Ismail, so there was a Fakhta in a cage in his house, shrieking’. So Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘O my^-asws son! What called you to keep this Fakhta, or do you not know that it is inauspicious, or do you not know what it is saying?’ Ismail said, ‘No’. He^-asws said: ‘But rather it is supplicating against its owners, ‘You are lost, you are lost! Therefore exit it’.[4]

The Dogs

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ يُكْرَهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي دَارِ الرَّجُلِ الْمُسْلِمِ الْكَلْبُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘It is abhorrent that there would happen to be the dog in the house of the man’.[5]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَتَّخِذُ كَلْباً إِلَّا نَقَصَ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ مِنْ عَمَلِ صَاحِبِهِ قِيرَاطٌ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘There is no one who would take a dog except that one carat (unit of measurement) would be reduced from his deeds every day’.[6]

عَنْهُ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْكَلْبِ نُمْسِكُهُ فِي الدَّارِ قَالَ لَا .

From him, from Usman, from Sama’at who said,

‘I asked about the dog, ‘Can we keep it in the house?’ He^-asws said: ‘No’.[7]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) لَا خَيْرَ فِي الْكِلَابِ إِلَّا كَلْبَ صَيْدٍ أَوْ كَلْبَ مَاشِيَةٍ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yusuf Bin Aqeel, from Muhammad Bin Qays,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘There is no goodness in the dogs except for the hunting dog, or a cattle dog’ (for looking after herd).[8]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ جَرَّاحٍ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَا تُمْسِكْ كَلْبَ الصَّيْدِ فِي الدَّارِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَهُ بَابٌ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalif, from his father, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Al Qasim Bin Suleyman, from Jarrah Al Madainy,

Abu Abdullah^-asws has said: ‘Do not keep a hunting dog in the house except if there happens to be a door between you and it’.[9]

عَنْهُ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ كَلْبِ الصَّيْدِ يُمْسَكُ فِي الدَّارِ قَالَ إِذَا كَانَ يُغْلَقُ دُونَهُ الْبَابُ فَلَا بَأْسَ .

From him, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at who said,

‘I asked about a hunting dog, to be kept in the house’. He^-asws said: ‘If there was door which could be locked on it, so there is no problem’.[10]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا ( عليهما السلام ) قَالَ الْكِلَابُ السُّودُ الْبَهِيمُ مِنَ الْجِنِّ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Muhammad Bin yahya, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Aban, from Zurara,

(It has been narrated) from one of the two (5^th or 6^th Imam^-asws) having said: ‘The dogs, entirely black, are from the Jinn’.[11]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ الثُّمَالِيِّ قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فِيمَا بَيْنَ مَكَّةَ وَ الْمَدِينَةِ إِذَا الْتَفَتَ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ فَإِذَا كَلْبٌ أَسْوَدُ بَهِيمٌ فَقَالَ مَا لَكَ قَبَّحَكَ اللَّهُ مَا أَشَدَّ مُسَارَعَتَكَ وَ إِذَا هُوَ شَبِيهٌ بِالطَّائِرِ فَقُلْتُ مَا هَذَا جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَقَالَ هَذَا غُثَيْمٌ بَرِيدُ الْجِنِّ مَاتَ هِشَامٌ السَّاعَةَ وَ هُوَ يَطِيرُ يَنْعَاهُ فِي كُلِّ بَلْدَةٍ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Maalik Bin Atiyya, from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly who said,

‘I was with Abu Abdullah^-asws in what is between Makkah and Al-Medina, when he^-asws turned to his^-asws left, so there was an entirely black dog. So he^-asws said: ‘What is the matter with you? Allah^-azwj Made you ugly, how fiercely you rush! and it was the resemblance of a bird’. So I said, ‘What is this? May I be sacrificed for you^-asws’. So he^-asws said: ‘This is Gusaym, a postman of the Jinn. Hisham died at this time, and he (turned himself into) a bird notifying it in every city’.[12]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَمُّونٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مِسْمَعٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( صلوات الله عليه ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الْكِلَابُ مِنْ ضَعَفَةِ الْجِنِّ فَإِذَا أَكَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الطَّعَامَ وَ شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْهَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَلْيُطْعِمْهُ أَوْ لِيَطْرُدْهُ فَإِنَّ لَهَا أَنْفُسَ سَوْءٍ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Misma’a,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The dogs are from the weak ones of the Jinn. So when one of you is eating the meal, and there is something from it in front of him, so let him feed it or let him repel it, for it has an evil self for it’.[13]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْكِلَابِ فَقَالَ كُلُّ أَسْوَدَ بَهِيمٌ وَ كُلُّ أَحْمَرَ بَهِيمٌ وَ كُلُّ أَبْيَضَ بَهِيمٌ فَذَلِكَ خَلْقٌ مِنَ الْكِلَابِ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ مَا كَانَ أَبْلَقَ فَهُوَ مَسْخٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Hashim, from Salim Bin Abu Salma,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws, said, ‘He^-asws was asked about the dogs, so he^-asws said: ‘Every entirely black one, and every entirely red one, and every entirely white one, so that is a creature from the dogs from the Jinn, and whatever was speckled, so it is one morphed from the Jinn and the humans’.[14]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) رَخَّصَ لِأَهْلِ الْقَاصِيَةِ فِي كَلْبٍ يَتَّخِذُونَهُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws that Rasool-Allah^-saww allowed for the people of the countryside to take dogs’.[15]

عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْكَلْبِ السَّلُوقِيِّ قَالَ إِذَا مَسِسْتَهُ فَاغْسِلْ يَدَكَ .

From him, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al A’ala Bin Razeyn, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about the greyhound dog. He^-asws said: ‘When you touch it, so wash your hand’.[16]

Domestic Animals

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَمَّنْ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ طَيْفُورٍ الْمُتَطَبِّبِ قَالَ سَأَلَنِي أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تَرْكَبُ قُلْتُ حِمَاراً فَقَالَ بِكَمِ ابْتَعْتَهُ قُلْتُ بِثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ دِينَاراً فَقَالَ إِنَّ هَذَا هُوَ السَّرَفُ أَنْ تَشْتَرِيَ حِمَاراً بِثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ دِينَاراً وَ تَدَعَ بِرْذَوْناً قُلْتُ يَا سَيِّدِي إِنَّ مَئُونَةَ الْبِرْذَوْنِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ مَئُونَةِ الْحِمَارِ قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الَّذِي يَمُونُ الْحِمَارَ يَمُونُ الْبِرْذَوْنَ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ مَنِ ارْتَبَطَ دَابَّةً مُتَوَقِّعاً بِهِ أَمْرَنَا وَ يَغِيظُ بِهِ عَدُوَّنَا وَ هُوَ مَنْسُوبٌ إِلَيْنَا أَدَرَّ اللَّهُ رِزْقَهُ وَ شَرَحَ صَدْرَهُ وَ بَلَّغَهُ أَمَلَهُ وَ كَانَ عَوْناً عَلَى حَوَائِجِهِ .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from the one who informed him, from Ibn Tayfour Al Mutatabab who said,

‘Abu Al-Hassan^-asws asked me: ‘Which thing do you ride?’ I said, ‘A donkey’. So he^-asws said: ‘With how much did you buy it?’ I said, ‘With thirteen Dinars’. So he^-asws said: ‘This is an extravagance if you were to buy a donkey with thirteen Dinars and neglect a work-horse’. I said, ‘My Master^-asws! The provision (feed) for the work-horse is more than a provision of the donkey’. He^-asws said: ‘The One Who^-azwj Provides (feed) for the donkey would Provide for the work-horse. Do you not know that the one who associates with an animal in expectation of our^-asws matter (Rising of Al-Qaim^-asws), and annoys our^-asws enemies by it, and it is linked to us^-asws, Allah^-azwj would Manage his livelihood, and Open his chest, and successfully conclude his work, and it would be an aid upon his needs’.[17]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ تِسْعَةُ أَعْشَارِ الرِّزْقِ مَعَ صَاحِبِ الدَّابَّةِ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Abdullah Bin Jundab, from a man from his companions,

Abu Abdullah^-asws has said: ‘Nine-tenths of the livelihood is with the owner of the animal’.[18]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ أَهْدَى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَرْبَعَةَ أَفْرَاسٍ مِنَ الْيَمَنِ فَقَالَ سَمِّهَا لِي فَقَالَ هِيَ أَلْوَانٌ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ قَالَ فَفِيهَا وَضَحٌ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فِيهَا أَشْقَرُ بِهِ وَضَحٌ قَالَ فَأَمْسِكْهُ عَلَيَّ

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Bakr Bin Salih, from Suleyman Al Ja’fary,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan^-asws, ‘I heard him^-asws saying: ‘Amir Al-Momineen^-asws gifted to Rasool-Allah^-saww, four horses from Al-Yemen. So he^-saww said: ‘Name these for me^-saww’. So he^-asws said: ‘These are of different types’. He^-saww said: ‘So is there a spotted one?’ So he^-asws said: ‘Yes, there is a blonde one with spots’. He^-saww said: ‘So keep it for me^-saww’.

قَالَ وَ فِيهَا كُمَيْتَانِ أَوْضَحَانِ فَقَالَ أَعْطِهِمَا ابْنَيْكَ قَالَ وَ الرَّابِعُ أَدْهَمُ بَهِيمٌ قَالَ بِعْهُ وَ اسْتَخْلِفْ بِهِ نَفَقَةً لِعِيَالِكَ إِنَّمَا يُمْنُ الْخَيْلِ فِي ذَوَاتِ الْأَوْضَاحِ

He^-asws said: ‘And among these are two yellow ones with spots’. So he^-saww said: ‘Give these two to your^-asws two sons^-asws’. He^-asws said: ‘And the fourth one is plain and with no spots on it’. He^-saww said: ‘Sell it and keep its price for (the expenses of) your^-asws family. But rather, good fortune of the cavalry horse is in the one with the spots’.

قَالَ وَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ كَرِهْنَا الْبَهِيمَ مِنَ الدَّوَابِّ كُلِّهَا إِلَّا الْحِمَارَ وَ الْبَغْلَ وَ كَرِهْتُ شِيَةَ الْأَوْضَاحِ فِي الْحِمَارِ وَ الْبَغْلِ الْأَلْوَنِ وَ كَرِهْتُ الْقُرْحَ فِي الْبَغْلِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ بِهِ غُرَّةٌ سَائِلَةٌ وَ لَا أَشْتَهِيهَا عَلَى حَالٍ .

He (the narrator) said, ‘And I heard Abu Al-Hassan^-asws saying: ‘We^-asws dislike the plain ones from the animals, all of these, except for the donkey, and the mule, and dislike the spots in the donkey and the mule being of different colours, and I^-asws dislike the bright-hooves in the mule except it happens to be expanded, nor do I^-asws desire it upon that state’.[19]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِئَابٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) اشْتَرِ دَابَّةً فَإِنَّ مَنْفَعَتَهَا لَكَ وَ رِزْقَهَا عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ali Bin Raib who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘Buy an animal, for its benefit would be for you and its sustenance would be upon Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.[20]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ الرَّقِّيِّ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَنِ اشْتَرَى دَابَّةً كَانَ لَهُ ظَهْرُهَا وَ عَلَى اللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا .

A number of our companions, from sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Ja’far Bin Bashir, from Dawood Al Raqy who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘The one who buys an animal, its back (for riding) would be for him, and upon Allah^-azwj would be its sustenance’.[21]

سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) اتَّخِذْ حِمَاراً يَحْمِلْ رَحْلَكَ فَإِنَّ رِزْقَهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ

Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Waleed, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said to me: ‘Take a donkey who would carry your belongings, for its sustenance would be upon Allah^-azwj’.

قَالَ فَاتَّخَذْتُ حِمَاراً وَ كُنْتُ أَنَا وَ يُوسُفُ أَخِي إِذَا تَمَّتِ السَّنَةُ حَسَبْنَا نَفَقَاتِنَا فَنَعْلَمُ مِقْدَارَهَا فَحَسَبْنَا بَعْدَ شِرَاءِ الْحِمَارِ نَفَقَاتِنَا فَإِذَا هِيَ كَمَا كَانَتْ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ لَمْ تَزِدْ شَيْئاً .

He (the narrator) said, ‘So I took a donkey, and I and my brother Yusuf, when the year was completed, accounted for our expenditure, and we knew of its measurement. So we counted our expenditure after the buying of the donkey, so it was as it used to be beforehand, during every year, nothing had increased (from the expenses due to the feed of the donkey)’.[22]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مِنْ سَعَادَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ دَابَّةٌ يَرْكَبُهَا فِي حَوَائِجِهِ وَ يَقْضِي عَلَيْهَا حُقُوقَ إِخْوَانِهِ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Sama’at, from Muhammad Bin Marwan,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘From the happiness of the Believer is an animal he rides for his needs, and fulfils upon it the right of his brethren’.[23]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مِنْ سَعَادَةِ الْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ الْمَرْكَبُ الْهَنِي‏ءُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘From the happiness of the Muslim man is the comfortable ride’.[24]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ زِيَادٍ الْقَنْدِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) اتَّخِذُوا الدَّابَّةَ فَإِنَّهَا زَيْنٌ وَ تُقْضَى عَلَيْهَا الْحَوَائِجُ وَ رِزْقُهَا عَلَى اللَّهِ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, and a number of our companions, from sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ziyad Al qindy, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws: ‘Take the animal, for it is an adornment, and fulfil the needs upon it, and its sustenance is upon Allah^-azwj Majestic is His^-azwj Mention’.

قَالَ وَ حَدَّثَنِي بِهِ عَمَّارُ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ وَ زَادَ فِيهِ وَ تَلْقَى عَلَيْهَا إِخْوَانَكَ .

He (the narrator) said, ‘And it was narrated with to me by Ammar Bin Al Mubarak, and there was an increase in it,

‘(He^-asws said): ‘And meet your brethren (by riding) upon it’.

وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ عَجَبٌ لِصَاحِبِ الدَّابَّةِ كَيْفَ تَفُوتُهُ الْحَاجَةُ .

And it is reported that, ‘He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws wonder at the owner of the animal how he would miss the (fulfilment of) needs’.[25]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ أَبِي الْبِلَادِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مِنْ شَقَاءِ الْعَيْشِ الْمَرْكَبُ السَّوْءُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from one of his companions, from Ibrahim Bin Abu Al Balaad, from Ali Bin Al Mugheira,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘From the misery of the life is the evil ride’.[26]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لِلدَّابَّةِ عَلَى صَاحِبِهَا سِتَّةُ حُقُوقٍ لَا يُحَمِّلُهَا فَوْقَ طَاقَتِهَا وَ لَا يَتَّخِذُ ظَهْرَهَا مَجَالِسَ يَتَحَدَّثُ عَلَيْهَا وَ يَبْدَأُ بِعَلْفِهَا إِذَا نَزَلَ وَ لَا يَسِمُهَا وَ لَا يَضْرِبُهَا فِي وَجْهِهَا فَإِنَّهَا تُسَبِّحُ وَ يَعْرِضُ عَلَيْهَا الْمَاءَ إِذَا مَرَّ بِهِ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘For the animal, upon its owner, are six rights – he would not burden it above its strength, nor would he take its back as a seat for having discussions upon it, and he would begin by feeding it when he descends, and he would not brand it, and he would not harm it in its face for it Glorifies (Allah^-azwj), and he would present the water to it whenever he passes by it’.[27]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْمَغْرَاءِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ فِيمَا أَظُنُّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ رُئِيَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ يَسْقِي حِمَاراً بِالرَّبَذَةِ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ أَ مَا لَكَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ مَنْ يَكْفِيكَ سَقْيَ الْحِمَارِ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ دَابَّةٍ إِلَّا وَ هِيَ تَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ اللَّهُمَّ ارْزُقْنِي مَلِيكاً صَالِحاً يُشْبِعُنِي مِنَ الْعَلَفِ وَ يُرْوِينِي مِنَ الْمَاءِ وَ لَا يُكَلِّفُنِي فَوْقَ طَاقَتِي فَأَنَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَسْقِيَهُ بِنَفْسِي .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Abu Al Magra, from Suleyman Bin Khalid who said regarding what I think is,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Abu Zarr^-ra was seen watering a donkey at Al-Rabza, so one of the people said to him^-ra, ‘Is there not for you^-ra, O Abu Zarr^-ra, one who would water the donkey for you^-ra?’ So he^-ra said: ‘I^-ra heard Rasool-Allah^-saww saying: ‘There is none from the animals except that it asks Allah^-azwj every morning, ‘O Allah^-azwj! Grant me a righteous owner who would satiate me from the feed, and would quench me from the water, and would not encumber me above my strength’. Therefore I^-ra love to water it myself^-ra’.[28]

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ طَرْخَانَ النَّخَّاسِ قَالَ مَرَرْتُ بِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ قَدْ نَزَلَ الْحِيرَةَ فَقَالَ لِي مَا عِلَاجُكَ قُلْتُ نَخَّاسٌ فَقَالَ أَصِبْ لِي بَغْلَةً فَضْحَاءَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ مَا الْفَضْحَاءُ قَالَ دَهْمَاءُ بَيْضَاءُ الْبَطْنِ بَيْضَاءُ الْأَفْحَاجِ بَيْضَاءُ الْجَحْفَلَةِ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ هَذِهِ الصِّفَةِ

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from Tarkhan Al Nakhas who said,

‘I passed by Abu Abdullah^-asws and he^-asws had lodged at Al-Hira, so he^-asws said to me: ‘What is your occupation?’ I said, ‘Animal trader’. So he^-asws said: ‘Find a Fazaah mule for me’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^-asws! And what is Al-Fazaah?’ He^-asws said: ‘Plain, of white belly, white thighs, white mouth’. I said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I have not seen the likes of this description’.

فَرَجَعْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَسَاعَةً دَخَلْتُ الْخَنْدَقَ إِذَا أَنَا غُلَامٌ قَدْ أَشْفَى عَلَى بَغْلَةٍ عَلَى هَذَا الصِّفَةِ فَسَأَلْتُ الْغُلَامَ لِمَنْ هَذِهِ الْبَغْلَةُ فَقَالَ لِمَوْلَايَ قُلْتُ يَبِيعُهَا قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي فَتَبِعْتُهُ حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ مَوْلَاهُ فَاشْتَرَيْتُهَا مِنْهُ وَ أَتَيْتُهُ بِهَا فَقَالَ هَذِهِ الصِّفَةُ الَّتِي أَرَدْتُهَا قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ ادْعُ اللَّهَ لِي فَقَالَ أَكْثَرَ اللَّهُ مَالَكَ وَ وَلَدَكَ قَالَ فَصِرْتُ أَكْثَرَ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ مَالًا وَ وَلَداً .

So I returned from his^-asws presence, so after a while I entered the ditch, and there was a slave who had sat upon a mule of this description. So I asked the slave, ‘For whom is this mule?’ So he said, ‘For my master’. I said, ‘Would he sell it’. He said, ‘I do not know’. So I followed him until I came up to his master. So I bought it from him, and I came over with it to him^-asws (the Imam^-asws). So he^-asws said: ‘This is the description which I^-asws wanted’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^-asws! Supplicate to Allah^-azwj for me’. So he^-asws said: ‘May Allah^-azwj Amplify your wealth and your children’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I became to be of the most abundant of the people of Al-Kufa in wealth and children’.[29]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لَا تَضْرِبُوا الدَّوَابَّ عَلَى وُجُوهِهَا فَإِنَّهَا تُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِ اللَّهِ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Qasim Bin Yahya, from his grandfather Al Hassan Bin Rashid, from Muhammad Bin Muslim,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Do not strike the animals upon their faces, for they Glorify with the Praise of Allah^-azwj’.

قَالَ وَ فِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ لَا تَسِمُوهَا فِي وُجُوهِهَا .

He^-asws (the Imam^-asws) said in another Hadeeth: ‘Do not brand them (curse them and hit) in their faces’.[30]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ الدِّهْقَانِ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِذَا عَثَرَتِ الدَّابَّةُ تَحْتَ الرَّجُلِ فَقَالَ لَهَا تَعَسْتِ تَقُولُ تَعَسَ أَعْصَانَا لِلرَّبِّ.

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Yasaar, from Ubeydullah Al Dahqan, from Dorost,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘When the animal stumbles beneath the man, so he (the man) says to it, ‘May you be ruined’. It (the animal) says, ‘May the one (who is) disobedient to the Lord^-azwj be ruined’.[31]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ الصَّادِقَ ( عليه السلام ) مَتَى أَضْرِبُ دَابَّتِي تَحْتِي فَقَالَ إِذَا لَمْ تَمْشِ تَحْتَكَ كَمَشْيَتِهَا إِلَى مِذْوَدِهَا .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ali Bin Ibrahim Al Ja’fary, raising it, said,

‘I asked Al-Sadiq^-asws, ‘When can I strike my animal under me?’ So he^-asws said: ‘When it does not walk under you like it walks to its feeding place’.[32]

وَ رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَنَّهُ قَالَ اضْرِبُوهَا عَلَى النِّفَارِ وَ لَا تَضْرِبُوهَا عَلَى الْعِثَارِ .

And it is reported,

(It has been narrated) from the Prophet^-saww having said: ‘Strike it (animal) upon the fleeing, and do not strike it upon the stumbling’.[33]

حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْخَشَّابِ عَنِ ابْنِ بَقَّاحٍ عَنْ مُعَاذٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ جُمَيْعٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لَا تَتَوَرَّكُوا عَلَى الدَّوَابِّ وَ لَا تَتَّخِذُوا ظُهُورَهَا مَجَالِسَ .

Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Al Khashab, from Ibn Baqah, from Moaz Al Jowhary, from Amro Bin Jumie,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Do not sit upon the animal with both feet hanging on one side, and do not take its back for a meeting place (to hold discussions while sitting upon it)’.[34]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ مَا بَهِمَتِ الْبَهَائِمُ فَلَمْ تُبْهَمْ عَنْ أَرْبَعَةٍ مَعْرِفَتِهَا بِالرَّبِّ وَ مَعْرِفَتِهَا بِالْمَوْتِ وَ مَعْرِفَتِهَا بِالْأُنْثَى مِنَ الذَّكَرِ وَ مَعْرِفَتِهَا بِالْمَرْعَى عَنِ الْخِصْبِ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Abu Hamza who said,

‘Ali^-asws Bin Al-Husayn^-asws was saying: ‘Whatever the dullness of the animals may be, but it is not dull from four (matters) – its recognition of the Lord^-azwj, and its recognition with the death, and its recognition with the female and the male, and its recognition with the pasture from the cultivated’.[35]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ حُرْمَةٌ وَ حُرْمَةُ الْبَهَائِمِ فِي وُجُوهِهَا .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘For everything is a sanctity, and a sanctity of the animals is in their faces’.[36]

أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ وَ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَهْمَا أُبْهِمَ عَلَى الْبَهَائِمِ مِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ فَلَا يُبْهَمُ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعَةُ خِصَالٍ مَعْرِفَةُ أَنَّ لَهَا خَالِقاً وَ مَعْرِفَةُ طَلَبِ الرِّزْقِ وَ مَعْرِفَةُ الذَّكَرِ مِنَ الْأُنْثَى وَ مَخَافَةُ الْمَوْتِ .

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Al Hajjal and Ibn Fazzal, from Yaqoub Bin Salim, from a man,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Whatever dullness of the animals may be from something, but it would not be dull upon four qualities – Recognising that there is a Creator for it, and recognising seeking of the sustenance, and recognising the male from the female, and fear of the death’.[37]

سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَمُّونٍ عَنِ الْأَصَمِّ عَنْ مِسْمَعِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) اضْرِبُوهَا عَلَى النِّفَارِ وَ لَا تَضْرِبُوهَا عَلَى الْعِثَارِ .

Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Al Asam, from Misma’a Bin Abdul Malik,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Strike it upon the fleeing but do not strike it upon the stumbling’.[38]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ عَلَى كُلِّ مَنْخِرٍ مِنَ الدَّوَابِّ شَيْطَانٌ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَنْ يُلْجِمَهَا فَلْيُسَمِّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Qasim Bin Yahya, from his grandfather Al Hassan Bin Rashid, from Yaqoub Bin Ja’far who said,

‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan^-asws saying: ‘Upon each nostril of the animal is a Satan^-la. So whenever one of you to bridle it, so he should Name Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.[39]

أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا ( عليهما السلام ) قَالَ أَيُّمَا دَابَّةٍ اسْتَصْعَبَتْ عَلَى صَاحِبِهَا مِنْ لِجَامٍ وَ نِفَارٍ فَلْيَقْرَأْ فِي أُذُنِهَا أَوْ عَلَيْهَا أَ فَغَيْرَ دِينِ اللَّهِ يَبْغُونَ وَ لَهُ أَسْلَمَ مَنْ فِي السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ طَوْعاً وَ كَرْهاً وَ إِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُونَ .

Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Abu Ubeyda,

(It has been narrated) from one of the two (5^th or 6^th Imam^-asws) having said: ‘Whichever animal disobeys its owner from bridling and flees, so let him recite in its ears, or upon it – [3:83] Is it other than Allah’s Religion that they seek (to follow), and to Him submits whoever is in the skies and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be returning’.[40]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( صلوات الله عليه ) إِنَّ مِنَ الْحَقِّ أَنْ يَقُولَ الرَّاكِبُ لِلْمَاشِي الطَّرِيقَ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘It is from the right that the rider says to the walker, ‘The road’ (Make way)’.

وَ فِي نُسْخَةٍ أُخْرَى إِنَّ مِنَ الْجَوْرِ أَنْ يَقُولَ الرَّاكِبُ لِلْمَاشِي الطَّرِيقَ .

And in another copy – ‘(He^-asws said): ‘It is from the inequity that the rider should be saying to the walker, ‘The road’ (Make way)’.[41]

وَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ خَرَجَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هُوَ رَاكِبٌ فَمَشَوْا مَعَهُ فَقَالَ أَ لَكُمْ حَاجَةٌ قَالُوا لَا وَ لَكِنَّا نُحِبُّ أَنْ نَمْشِيَ مَعَكَ فَقَالَ لَهُمُ انْصَرِفُوا فَإِنَّ مَشْيَ الْمَاشِي مَعَ الرَّاكِبِ مَفْسَدَةٌ لِلرَّاكِبِ وَ مَذَلَّةٌ لِلْمَاشِي .

And by his chain, said,

‘Amir Al-Momineen^-asws went out and he^-asws was riding, so they (people) walked along with him^-asws. So he^-asws said: ‘Is there any need for you (to be fulfilled)?’ They said, ‘No, but we love it that we should be walking along with you^-asws’. So he^-asws said: ‘Disperse, for the walking of the walker with the rider is a spoiler for the rider, and a humiliation for the walker’.[42]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الدِّهْقَانِ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِذَا رَكِبَ الرَّجُلُ الدَّابَّةَ فَسَمَّى رَدِفَهُ مَلَكٌ يَحْفَظُهُ حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ وَ إِذَا رَكِبَ وَ لَمْ يُسَمِّ رَدِفَهُ شَيْطَانٌ فَيَقُولُ لَهُ تَغَنَّ فَإِنْ قَالَ لَهُ لَا أُحْسِنُ قَالَ لَهُ تَمَنَّ فَلَا يَزَالُ يَتَمَنَّى حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Dahqan, from Dorost, from Ibrahim Bin Abdul Hameed,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘When the man rides the animal, so he Names (Bismillah) and Angel rides behind him, protecting him until he descends; and when he rides and does not Name (Bismillah), a Satan^-la rides behind him, so he^-la is saying to him, ‘Sing!’ So if he says to him^-la, ‘I am not good at it’, he^-la says to him, ‘Wish for it’. So he does not cease wishing until he descends’.

وَ قَالَ مَنْ قَالَ إِذَا رَكِبَ الدَّابَّةَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي هَدانا لِهذا الْآيَةَ وَ سُبْحانَ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَنا هذا وَ ما كُنَّا لَهُ مُقْرِنِينَ حُفِظَتْ لَهُ نَفْسُهُ وَ دَابَّتُهُ حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ .

And he^-asws said: ‘The one who says whenever he rides the animal, ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj, there is no Might or Strength except with Allah^-azwj, [7:43] All Praise is due to Allah Who Guided us to this, and we would not have found the Way had it not been that Allah had Guided us, [43:13] Glory be to Him Who Made this subservient to us and we were not able to do it’, Allah^-azwj would Protect for him his self, and his animal until he descends’.[43]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَوْ غَيْرُهُ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ خَرَجَ عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ وَ مَعَهُ جَمَاعَةٌ فَبَصُرَ بِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) مُقْبِلًا رَاكِباً بَغْلًا فَقَالَ لِمَنْ مَعَهُ مَكَانَكُمْ حَتَّى أُضْحِكَكُمْ مِنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ فَلَمَّا دَنَا مِنْهُ قَالَ لَهُ مَا هَذِهِ الدَّابَّةُ الَّتِي لَا تُدْرِكُ عَلَيْهَا الثَّأْرَ وَ لَا تَصْلُحُ عِنْدَ النِّزَالِ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) تَطَأْطَأَتْ عَنْ سُمُوِّ الْخَيْلِ وَ تَجَاوَزَتْ قُمُوءَ الْعَيْرِ وَ خَيْرُ الْأُمُورِ أَوْسَطُهَا فَأُفْحِمَ عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ فَمَا أَحَارَ جَوَاباً .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, or someone else, raising it, said,

‘Abdul Samad Bin Ali went out and with him was a group of people, so he saw Abu Al Hassan Musa Bin Ja’far^-asws riding a mule towards him. So he said to the ones who were with him, ‘Stay in your places until I make you laugh from Musa^-asws Bin Ja’far^-asws’. So when he approached him^-asws, said to him^-asws, ‘What is this animal upon which neither can the vengeance be realised nor is it correct for the battleground’. So Abu Al-Hassan^-asws said to him: ‘I^-asws have come down from the elevation of the cavalry horse and have exceeded the lowliness of the wild ass, and the best of the affairs is in its middle’. So Abdul Samad was speechless and could not responded with an answer’.[44]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ سَالِمٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لَا يَرْتَدِفْ ثَلَاثَةٌ عَلَى دَابَّةٍ فَإِنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ مَلْعُونٌ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from a number of our companions, from Ali Bin Asbaat, from his uncle Yaqoub Bin Salim, raising it, said,

‘Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Three must not ride upon one animal, for one of them would be an Accursed’.[45]

Keeping a Horse

عَنْهُ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ع يَقُولُ مَنْ رَبَطَ فَرَساً عَتِيقاً مُحِيَتْ عَنْهُ ثَلَاثُ سَيِّئَاتٍ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ وَ كُتِبَ لَهُ إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ حَسَنَةً وَ مَنِ ارْتَبَطَ هَجِيناً مُحِيَتْ عَنْهُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ سَيِّئَتَانِ وَ كُتِبَ لَهُ سَبْعُ حَسَنَاتٍ وَ مَنِ ارْتَبَطَ بِرْذَوْناً يُرِيدُ بِهِ جَمَالًا أَوْ قَضَاءَ حَوَائِجَ أَوْ دَفْعَ عَدُوٍّ عَنْهُ مُحِيَتْ عَنْهُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ سَيِّئَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ وَ كُتِبَ لَهُ سِتُّ حَسَنَاتٍ

It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from his grandfather. al-Hassan ibn Rashid from Ya’qub ibn Ja’far ibn Ibrahim al-Ja’fariy who has said the following:

‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan^-asws saying, ‘If one maintains a horse of pure breed, three of his sins will be deleted every day and ten good deeds will be written in his favour. If one maintains a horse of mixed breed, two of his bad deeds will be deleted every day and seven good deeds will be written in his favour. If one maintains a mule as a pet or for his needs or use in his defence against the enemy, one of his sins will be deleted every day and six good deeds will be written in his favour.’[46]

The Equipment of keeping animals

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ السَّرْجُ مَرْكَبٌ مَلْعُونٌ لِلنِّسَاءِ.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from one of his companions,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘The saddle riding is detestable for the women’.[47]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ جُلُودِ السِّبَاعِ فَقَالَ ارْكَبُوهَا وَ لَا تَلْبَسُوا شَيْئاً مِنْهَا تُصَلُّونَ فِيهِ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws was asked about skins of the predatory animals, so he^-asws said: ‘Ride in them but do not wear anything from these while offering Salaat (Praying in them)’.[48]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْعَمْرَكِيِّ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ السَّرْجِ وَ اللِّجَامِ فِيهِ الْفِضَّةُ أَ يُرْكَبُ بِهِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ مُمَوَّهاً لَا يُقْدَرُ عَلَى نَزْعِهِ فَلَا بَأْسَ وَ إِلَّا فَلَا تَرْكَبْ بِهِ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Al Amraky Bin Ali,

(It has been narrated) from Ali^-asws son of Ja’far^-asws, from his brother^-asws Abu Al-Hassan^-asws, said, ‘I asked him^-asws about the saddle and the reins where is the silver, can one ride with it?’ So he^-asws said: ‘If it is coated on and you are not able to remove it, so there is no problem, otherwise do not ride with it’.[49]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَنَانِ بْنِ سَدِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لِعَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تَرْكَبَ مِيثَرَةً حَمْرَاءَ فَإِنَّهَا مِيثَرَةُ إِبْلِيسَ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, form Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hanan Bin Sadeyr who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah^-asws saying: ‘The Prophet^-saww said to Ali^-asws: ‘Beware of riding on a red saddlecloth, for it is a saddlecloth of Satan^-la’.[50]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْمَدِينِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) كَانَ يَرْكَبُ عَلَى قَطِيفَةٍ حَمْرَاءَ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Hashim, from Ibrahim Bin Abu Yahya Al Madainy,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws that Ali^-asws Bin Al-Hassan^-asws was riding upon red velvet’.[51]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَمُّونٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مِسْمَعِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ كَانَتْ بُرَةُ نَاقَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مِنْ فِضَّةٍ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Misama’a Bin Abdul Malik,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘A ring in the nostril of the she-camel of Rasool-Allah^-saww was of silver’.[52]

Camel as a pet

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) كَانَ لَيَبْتَاعُ الرَّاحِلَةَ بِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ يُكْرِمُ بِهَا نَفْسَهُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abdullah Bin Sinan,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Ali^-asws Bin Al-Husayn^-asws had bought the riding animal for one hundred Dinars, honouring himself^-asws with it’.[53]

أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَمَّالِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) لَوْ يَعْلَمُ النَّاسُ كُنْهَ حُمْلَانِ اللَّهِ لِلضَّعِيفِ مَا غَالَوْا بِبَهِيمَةٍ .

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Al Hajjal, from Safwan Al Jamaal who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘Had the people known the true nature of the carriers as Allah^-azwj Made (Bearing the load) for the weak, they would not consider the animals as expensive’.[54]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِنَّ عَلَى ذِرْوَةِ كُلِّ بَعِيرٍ شَيْطَاناً فَامْتَهِنُوهَا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ ذَلِّلُوهَا وَ اذْكُرُوا اسْمَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّمَا يَحْمِلُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Giyas Bin Ibrahim,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said; ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘At the highest point of every camel is a Satan^-la, therefore degrade him and humiliate him to yourselves, and mention the Name of Allah^-azwj, for rather the carrier is (a Gift from) Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.[55]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَوْ يَعْلَمُ الْحَاجُّ مَا لَهُ مِنَ الْحُمْلَانِ مَا غَالَ أَحَدٌ بِبَعِيرٍ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Al Hakam,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Had the Pilgrim known what is for him from the carriers, no one would consider the camel to be expensive’.[56]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الرَّحَّالِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ قَالَ مَرَّ بِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ أَنَا أَمْشِي عَرْضَ نَاقَتِي فَقَالَ مَا لَكَ لَا تَرْكَبُ فَقُلْتُ ضَعُفَتْ نَاقَتِي فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُخَفِّفَ عَنْهَا فَقَالَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ ارْكَبْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَحْمِلُ عَنِ الضَّعِيفِ وَ الْقَوِيِّ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from Muhamad Bin Amro, from Suleyman Al Rahhal, from Abdullah Bin Abu Yafour who said,

‘I passed by Abu Abdullah^-asws and I was walking in the presence of my she-camel, so he^-asws said: ‘What is the matter you are not riding? ‘ So I said, ‘My camel has weakened, so I wanted to lighten from it’. So he^-asws said: ‘May Allah^-azwj have Mercy on you! Ride, for Allah^-azwj Carries from the weak and the strong’.[57]

عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَنْ يُتَخَطَّى الْقِطَارُ قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ لِمَ قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنْ قِطَارٍ إِلَّا وَ مَا بَيْنَ الْبَعِيرِ إِلَى الْبَعِيرِ شَيْطَانٌ .

From him, from his father, from the one who mentioned it,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww forbade cross the line (of the camels). So it was said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! And why?’ He^-saww said: ‘There is none from the line except and what is between the camel to the camel is a Satan^-la’.[58]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ اشْتَرَيْتُ إِبِلًا وَ أَنَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ مُقِيمٌ فَأَعْجَبَنِي إِعْجَاباً شَدِيداً فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلِ ( عليه السلام ) فَذَكَرْتُهَا لَهُ فَقَالَ مَا لَكَ وَ لِلْإِبِلِ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّهَا كَثِيرَةُ الْمَصَائِبِ

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Husayn Bin Umar Bin Yazeed, from his father who said,

‘I bought a camel and I was staying at Al-Medina, so it fascinated me with an intense fascination. So I went over to Abu Al-Hassan^-asws and mentioned it to him^-asws. So he^-asws said: ‘What is it to you and the camel? But, do you not know that it is with a lot of difficulties?’

قَالَ فَمِنْ إِعْجَابِي بِهَا أَكْرَيْتُهَا وَ بَعَثْتُ بِهَا مَعَ غِلْمَانٍ لِي إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ قَالَ فَسَقَطَتْ كُلُّهَا فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ فَقَالَ فَلْيَحْذَرِ الَّذِينَ يُخالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ أَنْ تُصِيبَهُمْ فِتْنَةٌ أَوْ يُصِيبَهُمْ عَذابٌ أَلِيمٌ .

He (the narrator) said, ‘So, from my fascination with it, I hired it out and sent two slaves of mine with it to Al-Kufa. So all of it was fruitless. So I went over to him^-asws and informed him^-asws, so he^-asws said: ‘[24:63] therefore let those beware who go against his order lest a trial afflict them or there befalls upon them a painful Punishment’.[59]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَمَّالِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَا صَفْوَانُ اشْتَرِ لِي جَمَلًا وَ خُذْهُ أَشْوَهَ فَإِنَّهُ أَطْوَلُ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَعْمَاراً فَاشْتَرَيْتُ لَهُ جَمَلًا بِثَمَانِينَ دِرْهَماً فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهِ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Al Hajjal, form Safwan Al Jammal who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘O Safwan! Buy a camel for me^-asws and take it as deformed, for it is something which is of longer life-span’. So I bought a camel for him^-asws with eighty Dirhams, and went over to him^-asws with it’.

وَ فِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ قَالَ اشْتَرِ السُّودَ الْقِبَاحَ فَإِنَّهَا أَطْوَلُ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَعْمَاراً .

And in another Hadeeth – ‘He^-asws said: ‘Buy the black, the ugly, for it is something with a longer life-span’.[60]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَدَّاحِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ مَيْمُونٍ قَالَ خَرَجْنَا مَعَ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى أَرْضِ طِيبَةَ وَ مَعَهُ عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍ وَ أُنَاسٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَأَقَمْنَا بِطِيبَةَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَ رَكِبَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَلَى جَمَلٍ صَعْبٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍ مَا أَصْعَبَ بَعِيرَكَ فَقَالَ أَ وَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ إِنَّ عَلَى ذِرْوَةِ كُلِّ بَعِيرٍ شَيْطَاناً فَامْتَهِنُوهَا وَ ذَلِّلُوهَا وَ اذْكُرُوا اسْمَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا فَإِنَّمَا يَحْمِلُ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ دَخَلَ مَكَّةَ وَ دَخَلْنَا مَعَهُ بِغَيْرِ إِحْرَامٍ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad,

(It has been narrated) from Ibn Al-Qaddah, from Abu Abdullah^-asws, and from his father Maymoun who said, ‘We went out with Abu Ja’far^-asws to the land of Tayba and with him^-asws was Amro Bin Dinar, and a group of his^-asws companions. So we stayed at Tayba for as long as Allah^-azwj so Desired, and Abu Ja’far^-asws rode upon a difficult camel. So Amro Bin Dinar said to him^-asws, ‘How difficult is your^-asws camel’. So he^-asws said: ‘Or do you not know that Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Upon the peak of every camel is a Satan^-la, therefore disgrace it and humiliated it, and mention the Name of Allah^-azwj upon it, for rather it is (the Strength of) Allah^-azwj Who Carries’. Then he^-asws entered Makkah and we entered with him^-asws without Ihraam’.[61]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ السِّنْدِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ إِيَّاكُمْ وَ الْإِبِلَ الْحُمْرَ فَإِنَّهَا أَقْصَرُ الْإِبِلِ أَعْمَاراً .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, form Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Ali Bin Al Sandy, from Muhammad Bin Amro Bin Saeed, from a man, from Ibn Abu Yafour,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^-asws, said, ‘I heard him^-asws saying: ‘Beware of the red camel for it is the camel of the shortest life-span’.[62]

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ اخْتَارَ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ شَيْئاً اخْتَارَ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ النَّاقَةَ وَ مِنَ الْغَنَمِ الضَّائِنَةَ .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, form Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah^-asws saying: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Chose something from everything. He^-azwj Chose the she-camel from the camels, and from the sheep, the ewe’.[63]

Sheep as a Pet:

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَا بُنَيَّ اتَّخِذِ الْغَنَمَ وَ لَا تَتَّخِذِ الْإِبِلَ .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa,

(It has been narrated) from Is’haq son of Ja’far^-asws who said, ‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said to me: ‘O my^-asws son! Take the sheep and do not take the camel’.[64]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) نِعْمَ الْمَالُ الشَّاةُ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Amro Bin Aban,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The best of the wealth is the sheep’.[65]

أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عُبَيْسِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) نَظِّفُوا مَرَابِضَهَا وَ امْسَحُوا رُغَامَهَا .

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Ubeys Bin Hisham, from Abdullah Bin Sinan,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Clean their pens and wipe their dust (from their fur)’.[66]

وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِذَا اتَّخَذَ أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ شَاةً أَتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ بِرِزْقِهَا وَ زَادَ فِي أَرْزَاقِهِمْ وَ ارْتَحَلَ الْفَقْرُ عَنْهُمْ مَرْحَلَةً فَإِنِ اتَّخَذَ شَاتَيْنِ أَتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ بِأَرْزَاقِهِمَا وَ زَادَ فِي أَرْزَاقِهِمْ وَ ارْتَحَلَ الْفَقْرُ عَنْهُمْ مَرْحَلَتَيْنِ فَإِنِ اتَّخَذُوا ثَلَاثَةً أَتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ بِأَرْزَاقِهِمْ وَ ارْتَحَلَ الْفَقْرُ عَنْهُمْ رَأْساً .

And by this chain,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘When the family takes a sheep, Allah^-azwj Grant them its sustenance and increases in their sustenance, and the poverty departs from them with a departing. So if they were to take two sheep, Allah^-azwj would Grant them sustenance for both of them and increase in their sustenance, and the poverty would depart from them with departing twice. So if they were to take three, Allah^-azwj would Grant the their sustenance, and the poverty would depart from them at the onset’.[67]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ يَكُونُ عِنْدَهُمْ شَاةٌ لَبُونٌ إِلَّا قُدِّسُوا فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ قُلْتُ وَ كَيْفَ يُقَالُ لَهُمْ قَالَ يُقَالُ لَهُمْ بُورِكْتُمْ بُورِكْتُمْ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from Muhammad Bin Ajlan who said,

‘I heard Abu Ja’far^-asws saying: ‘There is none from a family which happens to have a sheep with them for milking except it is sanctified twice every day’. I said, ‘And how is it said to them?’ He^-asws said: ‘It is said to them: ‘You are Blessed! You are Blessed!’[68]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَارِدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ مُؤْمِنٍ يَكُونُ فِي مَنْزِلِهِ عَنْزٌ حَلُوبٌ إِلَّا قُدِّسَ أَهْلُ ذَلِكَ الْمَنْزِلِ وَ بُورِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَإِنْ كَانَتَا اثْنَتَيْنِ قُدِّسُوا وَ بُورِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ قَالَ فَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا وَ كَيْفَ يُقَدَّسُونَ قَالَ يَقِفُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَلَكٌ فِي كُلِّ صَبَاحٍ فَيَقُولُ لَهُمْ قُدِّسْتُمْ وَ بُورِكَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ طِبْتُمْ وَ طَابَ إِدَامُكُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ وَ مَا مَعْنَى قُدِّسْتُمْ قَالَ طُهِّرْتُمْ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muhammad Bin Marad who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah^-asws saying: ‘There is none from a Believer what happens to have a dairy goat in his home, except the inhabitants of that home are sanctified and Blessings are upon them. So if there were to be two, so they are sanctified and Blessings are upon them twice every day’. So one of our companions said, ‘And how are they sanctified?’ He^-asws said: ‘An Angels pauses over them during every morning, so he is saying to them: ‘You are sanctified, and Blessings are upon you, and you are (made to be) good, and your sauce is (made to be) good’. I said to him^-asws, ‘And what is the meaning of ‘You are sanctified’?’ He^-asws said: ‘You are purified (from sins)’.[69]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لِعَمَّتِهِ مَا يَمْنَعُكِ أَنْ تَتَّخِذِي فِي بَيْتِكِ بَرَكَةً قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا الْبَرَكَةُ قَالَ شَاةٌ تُحْلَبُ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ كَانَ فِي دَارِهِ شَاةٌ تُحْلَبُ أَوْ نَعْجَةٌ أَوْ بَقَرَةٌ تُحْلَبُ فَبَرَكَاتٌ كُلُّهُنَّ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, form Ibn Abu Najran, from Abu Jameela, from Jabir,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said to his^-saww paternal aunt: ‘What prevents you from taking Blessings to be in your house?’ She said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! And what is the Blessing?’ He^-saww said: ‘A sheep you can milk, for it is such that the one who has a sheep in his house to milk, or an ewe, or a cow to milk, so these are Blessings, all of them’.[70]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) عَلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ فَقَالَ لَهَا مَا لِي لَا أَرَى فِي بَيْتِكِ الْبَرَكَةَ قَالَتْ بَلَى وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ إِنَّ الْبَرَكَةَ لَفِي بَيْتِي فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْزَلَ ثَلَاثَ بَرَكَاتٍ الْمَاءَ وَ النَّارَ وَ الشَّاةَ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, form Hammad, from Hareyz, from Abu Al Jaroud,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww went over to Umm Salma^-as, so he^-saww said to her^-as: ‘I^-saww do not see the blessing in your^-as room’. She^-as said: ‘Yes, and the Praise is for Allah^-azwj that the Blessing is in my^-as room’. So he^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Sent down three Blessings – the water, and the fire, and the sheep’.[71]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ رَفَعَهُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَا مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ تَرُوحُ عَلَيْهِمْ ثَلَاثُونَ شَاةً إِلَّا لَمْ تَزَلِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ تَحْرُسُهُمْ حَتَّى يُصْبِحُوا .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from Suleyman Al Ja’fary,

(It has been narrated) raising it to Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘There is none from a family to whom thirty sheep unwind, except that the Angels do not cease to enclose them until the morning’.[72]

Marking the livestock

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَسِمُ الْغَنَمَ فِي وُجُوهِهَا قَالَ سِمْهَا فِي آذَانِهَا .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said,

‘I said to Abu Abdullah^-asws, ‘Can I brand the sheep in their faces?’ He^-asws said: ‘Brand them in their ears’.[73]

أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ سِمَةِ الْمَوَاشِي فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهَا إِلَّا فِي الْوُجُوهِ .

Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about branding the livestock, so he^-asws said: ‘There is no problem with it except in their faces’.[74]

The Pigeons as Pet

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ وَ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ الْحَمَامُ مِنْ طُيُورِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ ( عليهم السلام ) .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, and Ibn Mahboub, from Muawiya Bin Wahab who said,

‘The pigeon is from the birds of the Prophets^-as’.[75]

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى مَوْلَى آلِ سَامٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ أَوَّلَ حَمَامٍ كَانَ بِمَكَّةَ حَمَامٌ لِإِسْمَاعِيلَ ( عليه السلام ) .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from Hammad Bin Usman, form Abdul A’ala, a slave of the progeny of Sam who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah^-asws saying that: ‘The first pigeon which was at Makkah was a pigeon of Ismail^-as’.[76]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ الْبَخْتَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ أَصْلَ حَمَامِ الْحَرَمِ بَقِيَّةُ حَمَامٍ كَانَ لِإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ( عليه السلام ) اتَّخَذَهَا كَانَ يَأْنَسُ بِهَا

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, form Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hafs Bin Al Bakhtary,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘The original pigeon of the Sanctuary of the rest of the pigeons was for Ismail^-as Bin Ibrahim^-as. He^-as took it as he^-as was comfortable with it’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يُسْتَحَبُّ أَنْ تَتَّخِذَ طَيْراً مَقْصُوصاً تَأْنَسُ بِهِ مَخَافَةَ الْهَوَامِّ .

So Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘It is recommended for you to take a clipped bird to be comfortable with it, if fear of the vermin’.[77]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَائِذٍ عَنْ أَبِي خَدِيجَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ هَذِهِ الْحَمَامُ حَمَامُ الْحَرَمِ هِيَ مِنْ نَسْلِ حَمَامِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ( عليه السلام ) الَّتِي كَانَتْ لَهُ .

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Salih Bin Abu Hammad, from Al Washa, from Ahmad Bin A’aiz, from Abu Khadeeja who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah^-asws saying: ‘This pigeon here, pigeon of the Sanctuary, it is from the lineage of a pigeon of Ismail^-as Bin Ibrahim^-as which was for him^-as’.[78]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمَّادٍ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَائِذٍ عَنْ أَبِي خَدِيجَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَيْسَ مِنْ بَيْتٍ فِيهِ حَمَامٌ إِلَّا لَمْ يُصِبْ أَهْلَ ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتِ آفَةٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ إِنَّ سُفَهَاءَ الْجِنِّ يَعْبَثُونَ فِي الْبَيْتِ فَيَعْبَثُونَ بِالْحَمَامِ وَ يَتْرُكُونَ الْإِنْسَانَ .

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Salih Bin Abu Hammad and Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, altogether, from Al Washa, from Ahmad Bin A’aiz, from Abu Khadeeja,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘There is none from the house wherein is a pigeon, except that the inhabitants of that house would not be hit by an affliction from the Jinn. The foolish ones from the Jinn tend to tamper in the house, so they would be tampering with the pigeons and they would be neglecting the human beings’.[79]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ الدِّهْقَانِ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ شَكَا رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الْوَحْشَةَ فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ فِي بَيْتِهِ زَوْجَ حَمَامٍ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ubeydullah Al Dahqan, from Dorost, from Abdullah Bin Sinan,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘A man complained to Rasool-Allah^-saww of loneliness, so he^-saww ordered him to take in his house, a pair of pigeons’.[80]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْجَامُورَانِيِّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَنْدَلٍ عَنْ زَيْدٍ الشَّحَّامِ قَالَ ذُكِرَتِ الْحَمَامُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ اتَّخِذُوهَا فِي مَنَازِلِكُمْ فَإِنَّهَا مَحْبُوبَةٌ لَحِقَتْهَا دَعْوَةُ نُوحٍ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هِيَ آنَسُ شَيْ‏ءٍ فِي الْبُيُوتِ .

A number of our companions, form Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Abu Abdullah Al Jamourany, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from his father, from Sandal, from Zayd Al Shahaam who said,

‘I mentioned the pigeon in the presence of Abu Abdullah^-asws, so he^-asws said: ‘Take these to be in your houses, for these are beloved. The supplication of Noah^-as has been attached to it, and it is a comforting thing in the house’.[81]

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الْحَمَامُ طَيْرٌ مِنْ طُيُورِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ ( عليهم السلام ) الَّتِي كَانُوا يُمْسِكُونَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ وَ لَيْسَ مِنْ بَيْتٍ فِيهِ حَمَامٌ إِلَّا لَمْ تُصِبْ أَهْلَ ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتِ آفَةٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ إِنَّ سُفَهَاءَ الْجِنِّ يَعْبَثُونَ فِي الْبَيْتِ فَيَعْبَثُونَ بِالْحَمَامِ وَ يَدَعُونَ النَّاسَ قَالَ فَرَأَيْتُ فِي بُيُوتِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) حَمَاماً لِابْنِهِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from a man, from Umar Bin Yazeed, from Abu Salma who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘The pigeon is a bird from the birds of the Prophets^-as which they^-as were keeping in their^-as houses, and there is none from a house wherein is a pigeon, except that its inhabitants would not be hit by an affliction from the Jinn. The foolish ones from the Jinn are tampering in the house, so they would be tampering with the pigeons instead and leave the people’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I saw in the rooms of Abu Abdullah^-asws, a pigeon for his^-asws son Ismail’.[82]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ نَظَرَ إِلَى حَمَامٍ فِي بَيْتِهِ مَا مِنِ انْتِفَاضٍ يَنْتَفِضُ بِهَا إِلَّا نَفَّرَ اللَّهُ بِهَا مَنْ دَخَلَ الْبَيْتَ مِنْ عُزْمَةِ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Qasim Bin Yahya, from his grandfather Al Hassan Bin Rashid, from Yaqoub Bin Ja’far who said,

‘Abu Al-Hassan^-asws said, and he^-asws looked at the pigeons in his^-asws house: ‘There is none from a twitching which it twitches by, except Allah^-azwj Repel by it the ones who enter the house from the determined ones (with evil intentions) of the people of the earth’.[83]

عَنْهُ عَنِ الْجَامُورَانِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ صَنْدَلٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ جَالِساً فِي بَيْتِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى حَمَامٍ رَاعِبِيٍّ يُقَرْقِرُ طَوِيلًا فَنَظَرَ إِلَيَّ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ يَا دَاوُدُ تَدْرِي مَا يَقُولُ هَذَا الطَّيْرُ قُلْتُ لَا وَ اللَّهِ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ قَالَ يَدْعُو عَلَى قَتَلَةِ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) فَاتَّخِذُوا فِي مَنَازِلِكُمْ .

From him, from Al Jamourany, form Ibn Abu Hamza, from Sandal, from Dawood Bin Farqad who said,

‘I was seated in the house of Abu Abdullah^-asws, so I looked at an Al-Ra’aiby pigeon cooing for a long time. So Abu Abdullah^-asws looked at me, so he^-asws said: ‘O Dawood! Do you know what this bird is saying?’ I said, ‘No, by Allah^-azwj, may I be sacrificed for you^-asws’. He^-asws said: ‘It is supplicating against the killers of Al-Husayn^-asws, therefore take it to be in your houses’.[84]

عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى الْأَزْرَقِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ حَفِيفَ أَجْنِحَةِ الْحَمَامِ لَتَطْرُدُ الشَّيَاطِينَ .

From him, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from a man, from Yahya Al Azraq who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah^-asws saying: ‘The swishing of the wings of the pigeons expels the satans^-la’.[85]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَدْفَعُ بِالْحَمَامِ عَنْ هَدَّةِ الدَّارِ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, raising it, said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Defends, by the pigeons, the house from crumbling down’.[86]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ اتَّخِذُوا الْحَمَامَ الرَّاعِبِيَّةَ فِي بُيُوتِكُمْ فَإِنَّهَا تَلْعَنُ قَتَلَةَ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ قَاتِلَهُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Take Al-Ra’aiby pigeons to be in your houses, for these curse the killers of Al-Husayn^-asws Bin Ali^-asws, and Allah^-azwj Curses his^-asws killers’.[87]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ الْأَصْبَهَانِيِّ قَالَ اسْتَهْدَانِي إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَهْدَيْتُ لَهُ طَيْراً رَاعِبِيّاً فَدَخَلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ اجْعَلُوا هَذَا الطَّيْرَ الرَّاعِبِيَّ مَعِي فِي الْبَيْتِ يُؤْنِسُنِي

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Bakr Bin Salih, from Muhammad Bin Abu Hamza, from Usman Al Asbahany who said,

‘Ismail son of Abu Abdullah^-asws gifted (something) to me, so I gifted to him a Raiby bird (pigeon). So I went to Abu Abdullah^-asws and he^-asws said: ‘Make this Raiby bird to be with me^-asws in the house, for it comforts me^-asws’.

قَالَ وَ قَالَ عُثْمَانُ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ حَمَامٌ يَفُتُّ لَهُنَّ خُبْزاً .

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Usman said, ‘I went over to Abu Abdullah^-asws and in front of him^-asws was a pigeon. He^-asws was breaking bread for it’.[88]

عَنْهُ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَشْعَثَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْبَارِقِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَرَأَيْتُ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ ثَلَاثَ حَمَامَاتٍ خُضْرٍ قَدْ ذَرَقْنَ عَلَى الْفِرَاشِ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْحَمَامُ تَقْذَرُ الْفِرَاشَ فَقَالَ لَا إِنَّهُ يُسْتَحَبُّ أَنْ تُسْكَنَ فِي الْبَيْتِ .

From him, from Bakr Bin Salih, from Ash’as Bin Muhammad Al Barqy, from Abdul Kareem Bin Salih who said,

‘I went over to Abu Abdullah^-asws, so I saw three green pigeons upon his^-asws mattress, and they had made droppings upon the mattress. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^-asws! These pigeons have dirties the mattress’. So he^-asws said: ‘No, it is recommended that they dwell in the house’.[89]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ كَانَ فِي مَنْزِلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) زَوْجُ حَمَامٍ أَحْمَرُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of his companions, from Aban, from a man,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘There was in the house of Rasool-Allah^-saww, a pair of red pigeons’.[90]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ السِّنْدِيِّ عَنْ يَحْيَى الْأَزْرَقِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) احْتَفَرَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) بِئْراً فَرَمَوْا فِيهَا فَأُخْبِرَ بِذَلِكَ فَجَاءَ حَتَّى وَقَفَ عَلَيْهَا فَقَالَ لَتَكُفَّنَّ أَوْ لَأُسْكِنَنَّهَا الْحَمَامَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ حَفِيفَ أَجْنِحَتِهَا تَطْرُدُ الشَّيَاطِينَ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Muhammad Bin Amro, from Ibrahim Al Sandy, from Yahya Al Azraq who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: Amir Al-Momineen^-asws dug a well, so they (people) threw (things) in it. So he^-asws was informed with that, so he^-asws came over until he^-asws paused over it and said: ‘You should refrain or else I^-asws will dwell the pigeons in it’. Then Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘A swishing of their wings is a repellent for the satans^-la’.[91]

عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا قَالَ ذُكِرَ الْحَمَامُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ إِنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ عُمَرَ رَأَى حَمَاماً يَطِيرُ وَ رَجُلٌ تَحْتَهُ يَعْدُو فَقَالَ عُمَرُ شَيْطَانٌ يَعْدُو تَحْتَهُ شَيْطَانٌ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا كَانَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ عِنْدَكُمْ فَقِيلَ صِدِّيقٌ فَقَالَ إِنَّ بَقِيَّةَ حَمَامِ الْحَرَمِ مِنْ حَمَامِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ .

From him, from his father, from one of our companions who said,

‘The pigeons were mentioned in the presence of Abu Abdullah^-asws, so a man said to him^-asws, ‘It has reached me that Umar saw a pigeon flying by and a man was running under it, so Umar said, ‘A satan^-la underneath a satan^-la’. So Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘What was Ismail^-as among you all?’ So it was said, ‘A truthful one’. So he^-asws said: ‘The remaining pigeons of the Sanctuary are from a pigeon of Ismail^-as’.[92]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ قَالَ سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الزَّوْجِ مِنَ الْحَمَامِ يُفْرِخُ عِنْدَهُ يَتَزَوَّجُ الطَّيْرُ أُمَّهُ وَ ابْنَتَهُ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِمَا كَانَ بَيْنَ الْبَهَائِمِ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ibn Abu Nasr who said,

‘A man asked Al-Reza^-asws about the pair of pigeons with him who had incubated, ‘Can the bird marry its mother, and its daughter?’ He^-asws said: ‘There is no problem with what was from between the beasts’.[93]

Using bird as messenger

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُذَافِرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الطَّيْرِ يُرْسَلُ مِنَ الْبَلَدِ الْبَعِيدِ الَّذِي لَمْ يَرَهُ قَطُّ فَيَأْتِي فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ عُذَافِرٍ هُوَ يَأْتِي مَنْزِلَ صَاحِبِهِ مِنْ ثَلَاثِينَ فَرْسَخاً عَلَى مَعْرِفَتِهِ وَ حَسَبِهِ فَإِذَا زَادَتْ عَلَى ثَلَاثِينَ فَرْسَخاً جَاءَتْ إِلَى أَرْبَابِهَا بِأَرْزَاقِهَا .

A number of our companions, form Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Muhammad Bin Uzafar who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about the bird sent with a message from the remote city which it had never seen at all, so it comes’. So he^-asws said: ‘O Ibn Uzafar! It would come to the house of its own from thirty Farsakhs (about 120 kilometres) upon its recognition and its reckoning. So when it exceeds upon thirty Farsakhs, it goes to its nourishes with its sustenance’.[94]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا أَتَى مِنْ ثَلَاثِينَ فَرْسَخاً فَبِالْهِدَايَةِ وَ مَا كَانَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَبِالْأُكُلِ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, raising it, said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘What (bird) comes to you from thirty Farsakhs (120 kilometers), so it is by guidance, and what was more than that, so it is by eating’.[95]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الطَّيْرُ يَجِي‏ءُ مِنَ الْمَكَانِ الْبَعِيدِ قَالَ إِنَّمَا يَجِي‏ءُ لِرِزْقِهِ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Sayf Bin Umeyra, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said,

‘I said to Abu Abdullah^-asws, ‘The bird which comes from the remote place’. He^-asws said: ‘But rather, it comes to its sustenance’.[96]

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُمْهُورٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ دَاوُدَ الْحَدَّادِ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُلْتُ الْحَمَامُ يُرْسَلْنَ مِنَ الْمَوَاضِعِ الْبَعِيدَةِ فَيَأْتِي وَ يُرْسَلْنَ مِنَ الْمَكَانِ الْقَرِيبِ فَلَا يَأْتِي فَقَالَ إِذَا انْقَطَعَ أُكُلُهُ فَلَا يَأْتِي .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Jamhour, from Ali Bin Dawood Al Haddad, from Hareyz,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws, said, ‘I said, ‘The pigeons which are sent with a message from the remote places, so they come, and they are sent from the nearby places so they don’t come’. So he^-asws said: ‘When its feed is cut-off, so they don’t come’.[97]

The Roosters as a pet

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) دِيكٌ أَبْيَضُ أَفْرَقُ يَحْرُسُ دُوَيْرَةَ أَهْلِهِ وَ سَبْعَ دُوَيْرَاتٍ حَوْلَهُ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Abu Jameela, from Jabir,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘A white frightening rooster protects a house of its inhabitants, and seven other houses around it’.[98]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ رُشَيْدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْهَاشِمِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَخْلَدٍ الْأَهْوَازِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ دِيكٌ أَبْيَضُ أَفْرَقُ يَحْرُسُ دُوَيْرَتَهُ وَ سَبْعَ دُوَيْرَاتٍ حَوْلَهُ وَ لَنَفْضَةٌ مِنْ حَمَامٍ مُنَمَّرَةٍ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ سَبْعِ دُيُوكٍ فُرْقٍ بِيضٍ .

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, form Ali Bin Suleyman Bin Rusheyd, from Al Qasim Bin Abdul Rahman Al Hashimy, from Muhammad Bin Makhlad Al Ahwazy,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘A white frightening rooster protects its house and seven houses around it, and a swishing (of the wings) from a speckled pigeon is superior than seven white frightening roosters’.[99]

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ قَالَ ذُكِرَ عِنْدَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) حُسْنُ الطَّاوُسِ فَقَالَ لَا يَزِيدُكَ عَلَى حُسْنِ الدِّيكِ الْأَبْيَضِ شَيْ‏ءٌ

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Al Qasim Bin Yahya, from his grandfather Al Hassan Bin Rashid, from Yaqoub Bin Ja’far Bin Ibrahim Al Ja’fary who said,

‘The beauty of peacocks were mentioned in the presence of Abu Al-Hassan^-asws, so he^-asws said: ‘It would not increase you anything upon the beauty of the white rooster’.

قَالَ وَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ الدِّيكُ أَحْسَنُ صَوْتاً مِنَ الطَّاوُسِ وَ هُوَ أَعْظَمُ بَرَكَةً يُنَبِّهُكَ فِي مَوَاقِيتِ الصَّلَاةِ وَ إِنَّمَا يَدْعُو الطَّاوُسُ بِالْوَيْلِ لِخَطِيئَةِ الَّتِي ابْتُلِيَ بِهَا .

He (the narrator) said, ‘And I heard him^-asws saying, ‘The rooster is of better voice than the peacock, and it is greater in Blessings. It alerts you during the timings of the Prayers, rather the peacock bewails due to the error which it indulged in’.[100]

عَنْهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الدِّيكُ الْأَبْيَضُ صَدِيقِي وَ صَدِيقُ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ .

From him, form one of his companions, raising it, said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘The white rooster is my^-asws friend and a friend of every Believer’.[101]

عَنْهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي شُعَيْبٍ الْمَحَامِلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ فِي الدِّيكِ خَمْسُ خِصَالٍ مِنْ خِصَالِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ السَّخَاءُ وَ الشَّجَاعَةُ وَ الْقَنَاعَةُ وَ الْمَعْرِفَةُ بِأَوْقَاتِ الصَّلَوَاتِ وَ كَثْرَةُ الطَّرُوقَةِ وَ الْغَيْرَةِ .

From him, from one of his companions, from Abu Shuayb Al Mahamily,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan^-asws having said: ‘The rooster has five characteristics from the characteristics of the Prophets^-as – The generosity, and the bravery, and the contentment, and the recognition of the timings of the Prayers, and the frequency of mating, and the self-esteem’.[102]

عَنْهُ وَ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَدَّاحِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) صِيَاحُ الدِّيكِ صَلَاتُهُ وَ ضَرْبُهُ بِجَنَاحِهِ رُكُوعُهُ وَ سُجُودُهُ .

From him, from a number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Ashary, from Ibn Al Qaddah,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘The shrieking of the rooster is its Prayer, and the flapping of its wings are its bowings and its prostrations’.[103]

Snake, lizards:

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ فِي كِتَابِ عَلِيٍّ ( صلوات الله عليه )  إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ الْحَيَّةِ مَا أَلْيَنَ مَسَّهَا وَ فِي جَوْفِهَا السَّمُّ النَّاقِعُ يَحْذَرُهَا الرَّجُلُ الْعَاقِلُ وَ يَهْوِي إِلَيْهَا الصَّبِيُّ الْجَاهِلُ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Abdullah Bin Al Mugheira, from Giyas Bin Ibrahim,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘In the Book of Ali^-asws (he^-asws said): ‘But rather an example of the world is like an example of the snake, which is smooth when touching it but from inside it is drenched in the venom. The intellectual man is cautious from it, and the ignorant children are attracted towards it’.[104]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَيَرَى الْحَيَّةَ أَوِ الْعَقْرَبَ يَقْتُلُهُمَا إِنْ آذَيَاهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ .

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about the man who happens to be in the Salāt, so he sees the snake or the scorpion. Can he kill these two if they harm him?’ He^-asws said: ‘Yes’.[105]

وَ الْحَيَّةُ إِذَا أَرَادَتْكَ فَاقْتُلْهَا فَإِنْ لَمْ تُرِدْكَ فَلَا تُرِدْهَا

And the snake, when it intends (to attack) you, so kill it. But if it does not intend (to attack) you, so do not intend (to attack it)’.

وَ الْأَسْوَدُ الْغَدِرُ فَاقْتُلْهُ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ وَ ارْمِ الْغُرَابَ رَمْياً وَ الْحِدَأَةَ عَلَى ظَهْرِ بَعِيرِكَ .

And the treacherous black snake, so kill it upon every state. And the crow and the buzzard, pelt it upon the back of your camel’.[106]

The Metamorphosed Animals:

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْهَمَذَانِيِّ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنِ الْكَلْبِيِّ النَّسَّابَةِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْجِرِّيِّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَسَخَ طَائِفَةً مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَمَا أَخَذَ مِنْهُمُ الْبَحْرَ فَهُوَ الْجِرِّيُّ وَ الزِّمِّيرُ وَ الْمَارْمَاهِي وَ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ وَ مَا أَخَذَ مِنْهُمُ الْبَرَّ فَالْقِرَدَةُ وَ الْخَنَازِيرُ وَ الْوَبْرُ وَ الْوَرَلُ وَ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ .

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Hamdany, from Sama’at Bin Mihran, from Al Kalby Al Nasaba who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about the catfish, so he^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Metamorphosed a group from the Children of Israel, so whatever of them which the ocean seized, so it is the catfish, and the glypto-thorax (mountain catfish), and the sea horse, and what is besides that; and what the land seized from them, so it is the monkeys, and the pigs, and the (short-haired) rabbit, and the lizard, and what is besides that’.[107]

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَكْلِ الضَّبِّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الضَّبَّ وَ الْفَأْرَةَ وَ الْقِرَدَةَ وَ الْخَنَازِيرَ مُسُوخٌ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^-asws, said, ‘I asked him^-asws about eating the lizard. So he^-asws said: ‘The lizard, and the mouse, and the monkey, and the pigs, are morphed (creatures)’.[108]

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ الْفِيلُ مَسْخٌ كَانَ مَلِكاً زَنَّاءً وَ الذِّئْبُ مَسْخٌ كَانَ أَعْرَابِيّاً دَيُّوثاً وَ الْأَرْنَبُ مَسْخٌ كَانَتِ امْرَأَةً تَخُونُ زَوْجَهَا وَ لَا تَغْتَسِلُ مِنْ حَيْضِهَا وَ الْوَطْوَاطُ مَسْخٌ كَانَ يَسْرِقُ تُمُورَ النَّاسِ وَ الْقِرَدَةُ وَ الْخَنَازِيرُ قَوْمٌ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ اعْتَدَوْا فِي السَّبْتِ وَ الْجِرِّيثُ وَ الضَّبُّ فِرْقَةٌ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا حَيْثُ نَزَلَتِ الْمَائِدَةُ عَلَى عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ ( عليه السلام ) فَتَاهُوا فَوَقَعَتْ فِرْقَةٌ فِي الْبَحْرِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْفَأْرَةُ فَهِيَ الْفُوَيْسِقَةُ وَ الْعَقْرَبُ كَانَ نَمَّاماً وَ الدُّبُّ وَ الزُّنْبُورُ كَانَتْ لَحَّاماً يَسْرِقُ فِي الْمِيزَانِ .

Muhammad Bin Yaya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Al Ashary,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza^-asws having said: ‘The elephant is a morphed (creature), it was an adulterous king; and the wolf was morphed, it was a Bedouin pimp; and the rabbit was morphed, it was a woman who betrayed her husband, and did not wash from her menstruations; and the bat was morphed, it was (a thief) stealing dates of the people; and the monkey and the pigs were a people from the Children of Israel, having exceeded in the Sabbath; and the sea bass and the lizard were a sect from the Children of Israel who did not believe when the meal was descended upon Isa^-as Bin Maryam^-as, so they strayed and a sect fell into the sea, and a sect in the land; and the mouse, so it was an immoral woman; and the scorpion was a malicious gossiper; and the bear and the wasp were butchers who used to steal (cheat) in the weighing’.[109]

Lizard is Cursed

عَنْهُ عَنْ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ كَرَّامٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ طَلْحَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) عَنِ الْوَزَغِ فَقَالَ رِجْسٌ وَ هُوَ مَسْخٌ كُلُّهُ فَإِذَا قَتَلْتَهُ فَاغْتَسِلْ فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَبِي كَانَ قَاعِداً فِي الْحِجْرِ وَ مَعَهُ رَجُلٌ يُحَدِّثُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِوَزَغٍ يُوَلْوِلُ بِلِسَانِهِ فَقَالَ أَبِي لِلرَّجُلِ أَ تَدْرِي مَا يَقُولُ هَذَا الْوَزَغُ قَالَ لَا عِلْمَ لِي بِمَا يَقُولُ قَالَ فَإِنَّهُ يَقُولُ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ ذَكَرْتُمْ عُثْمَانَ بِشَتِيمَةٍ لَأَشْتِمَنَّ عَلِيّاً حَتَّى يَقُومَ مِنْ هَاهُنَا

From him, from Salih, from Al-Washa’, from Karraam, from Abdullah Bin Talha who said:

I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about the lizard, so he^-asws said: ‘Filthy, and it is a metamorphosed (creature), all of them. So if you were to kill it, wash yourself (Ghusl)’. My^-asws father was seated in Al-Hijr, and with him^-asws was a man to whom he^-asws was narrating. So a lizard started ululating with its tongue. So my^-asws father said to the man: ‘Do you know what this lizard is saying?’ He said, ‘I have no knowledge of what it is saying’. He^-asws said: ‘It is saying that if you mention Usman by insults, I will insult Ali^-asws until he goes from there’.

قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبِي لَيْسَ يَمُوتُ مِنْ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ مَيِّتٌ إِلَّا مُسِخَ وَزَغاً قَالَ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ مَرْوَانَ لَمَّا نَزَلَ بِهِ الْمَوْتُ مُسِخَ وَزَغاً فَذَهَبَ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْ مَنْ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ وَ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ وُلْدُهُ فَلَمَّا أَنْ فَقَدُوهُ عَظُمَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَلَمْ يَدْرُوا كَيْفَ يَصْنَعُونَ ثُمَّ اجْتَمَعَ أَمْرُهُمْ عَلَى أَنْ يَأْخُذُوا جِذْعاً فَيَصْنَعُوهُ كَهَيْئَةِ الرَّجُلِ قَالَ فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ وَ أَلْبَسُوا الْجِذْعَ دِرْعَ حَدِيدٍ ثُمَّ لَفُّوهُ فِي الْأَكْفَانِ فَلَمْ يَطَّلِعْ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا أَنَا وَ وُلْدُهُ.

He^-asws said: ‘And my^-asws father^-asws said: ‘There is none from the Clan of Umayya who dies, but he gets metamorphosed as a lizard. Abdul Malik Bin Marwaan, when death descended upon him, was metamorphosed into a lizard in front of the children who were in his presence. So when he was lost, that was a great (problem) for them as they did not know what to do. Then they met in a gathering, and decided to take a trunk and make it to look like a man. So they did that and clothed that with a coat of iron armour. Then they wrapped it in the shroud. So no one from the people knew about it except for myself^-asws and his children’.[110]

The Locusts

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ مَسْعَدَةَ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ قَالَ سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ أَكْلِ الْجَرَادِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِأَكْلِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّهُ نَثْرَةٌ مِنْ حُوتٍ فِي الْبَحْرِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ السَّمَكَ وَ الْجَرَادَ إِذَا خَرَجَ مِنَ الْمَاءِ فَهُوَ ذَكِيٌّ وَ الْأَرْضُ لِلْجَرَادِ مَصِيدَةٌ وَ لِلسَّمَكِ قَدْ يَكُونُ أَيْضاً .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Haroun Bin Muslim, from Mas’ada Bin Sadaqa who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws was asked about eating the locusts. So he^-asws said: ‘There is no problem with eating it’. Then he^-asws said: ‘They are emanating from the fishes of the sea (crayfish/lobsters)’. Then he^-asws said: ‘Ali^-asws said: ‘The fish and the locusts, when they come out from the water, so it is pure, and the land is a trap for the locusts, and for the fishes it happens to be (a trap) as well’.[111]

[1] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 10 H 1

[2] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 10 H 3

[3] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 11 H 2

[4] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 11 H 3

[5] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 1

[6] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 2

[7] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 3

[8] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 4

[9] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 5

[10] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 6

[11] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 7

[12] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 8

[13] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 9

[14] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 10

[15] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 11

[16] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 12 H 12

[17] Al-Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 1

[18] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 2

[19] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 3

[20] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 4

[21] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 5

[22] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 6

[23] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 7

[24] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 8

[25] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 9

[26] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 1 H 10

[27] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 1

[28] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 2

[29] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 3

[30] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 4

[31] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 5

[32] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 6

[33] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 7

[34] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 8

[35] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 9

[36] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 10

[37] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 11

[38] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 12

[39] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 13

[40] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 14

[41] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 15

[42] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 16

[43] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 17

[44] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 18

[45] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 2 H 19

[46] Al-Kafi, vol, 5, Ch. 17, h, 4

[47] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 3 H 1

[48] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 3 H 2

[49] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 3 H 3

[50] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 3 H 4

[51] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 3 H 5

[52] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 3 H 6

[53] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 1

[54] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 2

[55] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 3

[56] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 4

[57] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 5

[58] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 6

[59] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 7

[60] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 8

[61] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 9

[62] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 10

[63] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 4 H 11

[64] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 1

[65] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 2

[66] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 3

[67] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 4

[68] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 5

[69] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 6

[70] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 7

[71] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 8

[72] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 5 H 9

[73] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 6 H 1

[74] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 6 H 2

[75] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 1

[76] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 2

[77] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 3

[78] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 4

[79] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 5

[80] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 6

[81] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 7

[82] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 8

[83] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 9

[84] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 10

[85] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 11

[86] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 12

[87] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 13

[88] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 14

[89] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 15

[90] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 16

[91] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 17

[92] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 18

[93] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 7 H 19

[94] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 8 H 1

[95] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 8 H 2

[96] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 8 H 3

[97] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 8 H 4

[98] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 9 H 1

[99] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 9 H 2

[100] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 9 H 3

[101] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 9 H 4

[102] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 9 H 5

[103] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Domestic Animals Ch 9 H 6

[104] Al Kafi V 2 – The Book Of Belief and Disbelief CH 61 H 22

[105] Al Kafi V 3 – The Book of Salāt CH 47 H 1

[106] Al Kafi – V 4 – The Book of Hajj Ch 97 H 2

[107] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Hunting Ch 12 H 12

[108] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Foodstuffs Ch 2 H 5

[109] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Foodstuffs Ch 2 H 14

[110] Al Kafi – V 8, H. 14753

[111] Al Kafi – V 6 – The Book of Hunting Ch 13 H 1