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Hadith 548
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548 - وَقَالَ اَلصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: «اَلْأَكْلُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ اَلْمُصِيبَةِ مِنْ عَمَلِ أَهْلِ اَلْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَ اَلسُّنَّةُ اَلْبَعْثُ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالطَّعَامِ كَمَا أَمَرَ بِهِ اَلنَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اَللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ فِي آلِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ لَمَّا جَاءَ نَعْيُهُ.
Hadith.548 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "Eating [a meal] at the home of those afflicted with a loss is from the practices of the people of the pre-Islamic era (Jahiliya), The sunnah (tradition) is to send food to them, as The Prophet (sw) ordered when the news of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib’s (as) martyrdom came”.
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq