Hadith record

23. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from certain individuals of his people from a man of ‘Ammah (non-Shi ’a) who has said the following: “I would sit in the meeting place of Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) I swear by Allah that I had not seen any meeting place nobler than his meeting place. One day he asked me, ‘Where from does sneeze come?’ I said, ‘It comes out of the nose.’ He said, ‘You have got it wrong.’ I then said, ‘May Allah keep my soul in service for your cause, from where does it come?’ The Imam said, ‘It comes from the whole body, just as a reproductive seed comes out of the whole body and its exit is through penis.’ The Imam then asked, ‘Have you noted that when one sneezes his whole body moves and a person sneezing is safe from death for seven days?”’

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.