The Sufficient (Vol 7) · Hadith 844 (#Ḥadīth #14)

14- عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَوْسَطِ ما تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ فَقَالَ مَا تَقُوتُونَ بِهِ عِيَالَكُمْ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ ذَلِكَ قُلْتُ وَمَا أَوْسَطُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ الْخَلُّ وَالزَّيْتُ وَالتَّمْرُ وَالْخُبْزُ تُشْبِعُهُمْ بِهِ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً قُلْتُ كِسْوَتُهُمْ قَالَ ثَوْبٌ وَاحِدٌ.

14. Ali has narrated from his father from ibn Mahbub from abu Ayyub from abu Basir who has narrated the following: “I once asked abu Ja’far , about, ‘. . . the average kind of food that you provide for your family.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is the kind of food which you feed your family, it must be of the middle of the two, high and low, quality that you provide for your family.’ I then asked, ‘What is the middle of such food?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is vinegar and oil and dates and bread to satisfy them once.’ I then asked about clothing them. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is one piece of cloth.’”

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