Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 442

Stopping a person in his illness..
1 Ḥadīth

عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) يَقُولُ لَا تَنْفَعُ الْحِمْيَةُ لِمَرِيضٍ بَعْدَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ.


442. From him, from Ahmad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Ra’ib, from Halby who said: I heard Abu Abdullah (a.s) saying: ‘Dieting is not beneficial to the sick after seven days’.