Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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10. Muhammad has narrated from Ahmad from ibn Faddal from ibn Bukayr from Hamza ibn al-Tayyar the following. “(Imam) abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) said, ‘In the case of what may come to you and you have no knowledge of its veracity you can do nothing but to hold and v
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4. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sa‘id ibn ‘Abdallah who has said the following. “Al-Hassan ibn al-Nadr and abu Sidam and a group of people, after abu Muhammad (a.s.) had passed away would discuss about the property (of religious dues) in their possessio
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5. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Hamawayh al-Suwaydawiy from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Mahziyar who has said the following. “At the time abu Muhammad (a.s.) passed away I had doubts. Large quantities of commodities (of religious dues) were ac
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6. Muhammad ibn abu ‘Abdallah has narrated from abu ‘Abdallah al-Nisa’iy who has said the following. “I delivered certain items from al-Marzabani al-Harithi to the holy location. One item was a gold bracelet. Other items were accepted but the bracelet was ret
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7. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from al-Fadl al-Khazzaz al-Mada-’ini, the slave of Khadija daughter of Muhammad abu Ja‘far (a.s.)who has said the following “Certain people of the city of al-Madina that belonged to al-Talibiyin group believed in the truth (ab
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8. Ali ibn Muhammad has said that a man from Bedouins sent a certain quantity of commoditiy (as religious dues) but it was returned to him and he was told, “Pay first the rights of the children of your uncle. It is four hundred Dirhams.” The property of the c
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9. Al-Qasim ibn al-‘Ala’ has said the following. “Several boys were born to me and each time I would write and request for prayer. Nothing would have been written to me about them. They all died. When my son al-Hassan was born I wrote and requested for prayer
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10. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated ‘Abdallah ibn Salih who has said the following “I lived in Baghdad and one year I requested permission (from the twelfth Imam (a.s.) to travel out but permission was not granted. I waited for twenty two days and the caravan h
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11. Ali has narrated from al-Nadr al-Bajali from md ibn Yusuf al-Shashi who has said the following “A boil had grown on my heaps. I sought treament from several physicians and spent money but they said that they knew of no medicine for it. I then wrote a lett
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12. Ali has narrated from Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Yamani who has said the following “I lived in Baghdad. Once the caravan for the people of Yemen was about to live. I also decided to leave with them. I then wrote to him (the twelfth Imam (a.s.) requesting his pe
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13. Al-Hassan ibn al-Fadl ibn Yazid al-Yamani has said the following. “My father wrote in his own had writing he received back a response. I then wrote in my own hand writing I also received back a response. One of our Fuqaha’ (scholar of law) wrote in his ow
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11. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from al-Minqari from Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah who has said the following. “(Imam) abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who said, ‘I have found all the knowledge of people in four categories: (a) The knowl
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14. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid who has said the following. “ I had doubts in the case of Hajiz (as whether the had authorized him or not). I then collected a few items and left for the army camp (the city of Surra man Ra’a
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15. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Salih who has said the following. “When my father died and the task (of working is representative of the Imams) was left to me with my father there were promissory notes from those who has said the following
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16. Ali has narrated from a number of our people from Ahmad ibn al-Hassan and al-‘Ala’ ibn Rizq Allah from Badr Ghulam Ahmad ibn al-Hassan who has said the following. “I began to live in al-Jabal (a town between Baghdad and Azarbayjan) and I did not believe i
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17. Ali has narrated from the one who narrated to him the following. “A boy was born to me. I wrote to him (al-Mahdi (a.s.) for his permission to give the baby a special bath for the ceremony on the seventh day of his birth. The answer came back and it said,
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18. Al-Hassan ibn Ali al-‘Alawi has said the following. “Al-Majruh left a certain amount of commodities that was of the dues to the holy location with Mirdas ibn Ali. With Mirdas there was already such commodities that Yatim ibn Hanzala had left. Amessage cam
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19. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn ‘Isa al-‘Uraydi abu Muhammad who has said the following. “When abu Muhammad (a.s.) passed away a man from Egypt came to Makk with a certain amount of commodities that were due to the holy location (office o
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20. ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad said: A man from the people of Ābah carried something to deliver (to the office of the Imam (AS)), but forgot a sword in Ābah. He sent what he had with him (the delivery was made), and a letter was written to him, asking: "What about the
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21. Al-Hassan ibn Khafif has narrated from his father who has said the following. “Imam al-Mahdi (a.s.) had sent certain servants to al-Madina of the Messenger of Allah and among them were two servants. He had written to Khafif to leave with them. He then lef