Hadith 385

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Sinan, from Misma’a Kirdeyn Al Basry who said, ‘I did not used to increase upon eating once by the night and the day. Sometimes I would ask permission upon vising Abu Abdullah-asws and find that perhaps the meal would have been raised and I would not see it in front of him-asws. When I would enter, he-asws would call for it, so I would attain with him-asws from the food, and I would not be harmed by that (the food at all). However, whenever I ate the food with others (people), I was not able upon settling and could not sleep due to gasses (indigestion). I complained of what to him-asws and I informed him that whenever I ate with him-asws I am not harmed by it. He-asws said: ‘O Abu Sayyar! You are eating the food of the righteous people-asws. Then Angels shake their hands upon their-asws furnishings’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘And they appear to you-asws all (Imams-asws)? ’ He-asws wiped his-asws hands upon one of his-asws children and he-asws said: ‘They are kinder with our-asws children than we-asws are with them’’. [267]