Book 5, Chapter #43


Excellence of Dinner and Undesirability of Ignoring it

Ḥadīth #9

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عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ ذَرِيحٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ الشَّيْخُ لَا يَدَعُ الْعَشَاءَ وَ لَوْ بِلُقْمَةٍ .

9. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from certain persons of his people from Dharih who has said the following: “Abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s), has said, ‘An old man must not neglect dinner even if it is one morsel.”’