Hadith

 أَبِي رَحِمَهُ اَللَّهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي اَلْمِقْدَامِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّهُ قَالَ : شِيعَةُ عَلِيٍّ ع اَلشَّاحِبُونَ اَلنَّاحِلُونَ اَلذَّابِلُونَ ذبلة ذَابِلَةٌ شِفَاهُهُمْ خَمِيصَةٌ بُطُونُهُمْ مُتَغَيِّرَةٌ أَلْوَانُهُمْ.

 My father, Allah may have mercy upon him, narrated to us from Ahmed bin Idris from Mohammed bin Ahmed from Mohammed bin Easa from Abu Mohammed al-Ansari from Amr bin Abi al-Miqdam from his father that Abu Ja’far (a) said to him: O Abu al-Miqdam, the Shia of Ali (a) are the pale, the thin, and the emaciated. Their lips are dry, their stomachs are atrophied, and their colors are faded.

Ṣifāt al-Shīʿa

Book 1, Chapter 24