Hadith 31

(The books) ‘Al Ihtijaj’, (and) ‘Tafseer Imam (Hassan Al Askari-asws) –
‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws was seated one day, and a man from the Greeks came over, the claimant to the philosophy and the medicine, and he said to him-asws, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan-asws! A piece of news has reached me that your-asws companion (Rasool-Allah-saww), and that he-saww is with the insanity, and I have come to cure him-saww. I want to meet him-saww, but (I was told that) he-saww has passed on his-saww way (passed away). So, it is lost to me what I had intended from that, and it was said to me, that you-asws are his-saww cousin and his-saww son-in-law, and I can see paleness with you-asws, and I have seen that your-asws legs are thin. I do not see them bearing your-asws weight. As for the paleness, so there is its cure with me, and as for the two thin legs, so there is gimmick with me in order to thicken these, and the mode is that you-asws should raise yourself‑asws regarding the walking, and a little of it, not more, and in what you-asws can load upon your-asws back, and embrace it with your-asws chest if you are less with these, and do not be excessive with these two for your-asws legs are thin – they would not be safe during carrying a heavy load they might break. And as for the paleness, so its cure is with me, and it is this’, and he brought out a medication – and he said, ‘This will not harm you-asws nor would it alter anything in you-asws, but it would necessitate a dieting from the meat for forty morning, then your-asws paleness would decline’. Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws said to him: ‘You mentioned the benefits of this medicine for my-saww paleness, so do you recognise anything which would increase it and harm it? ’ The man said, ‘Yes, a seed from this’ – and he gestured by his hand to a medicine with him – and said, ‘If the human being takes it and there is paleness with him, he would die from its very moment, and if there was no paleness with him, the paleness would come to be with him until he dies during his very day’. Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws said: ‘Then show me-asws this harmful one’. He gave it to him-asws, and he-asws said to him: ‘How much is the measurement of this? ’ He said, ‘A measurement of two Misqaal of pure poison, a measurement of each seed from it would kill a man’. Ali-asws took it, and sat comfortably and sweated with light sweating, and the man went on trembling and he was saying within himself, ‘Now I will be seized by the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws and it would be said I killed him-asws, an