إنَّ فُلانا ـ رجُلٌ سَمّاهُ ـ قالَ : إنّي كُنتُ زاهِدا في الوَلَدِ حتّى وَقَفتُ بِعَرَفَةَ ، فإذا إلى جانِبي غُلامٌ شابٌّ يَدعو و يَبكي و يَقولُ : يا ربِّ والِدَيَّ والِدَيَّ ، فَرَغَّبَني في الوَلَدِ حِينَ سَمِعتُ ذلكَ .
Imam Ja‘far al-Ṣadiq (as):
A man once said, “I was reluctant to have a child until I stopped at Arafa [when performing Hajj], suddenly I heard a young boy weeping and praying to God saying: My Lord, [forgive] my parents, my parents. And it was such an incident that awakened my desire for having a child.”
Source:
al-Kāfī
Vol6
P3
ID: 27153