Al-Kafi · Hadith 28

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority) (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 125, Hadith 28

Original Arabic text

28ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هَارُونَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الْهَمَذَانِيِّ قَالَ كَانَ لِلنَّاحِيَةِ عَلَيَّ خَمْسُمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ فَضِقْتُ بِهَا ذَرْعاً ثُمَّ قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي لِي حَوَانِيتُ اشْتَرَيْتُهَا بِخَمْسِمِائَةٍ وَثَلاثِينَ دِينَاراً قَدْ جَعَلْتُهَا لِلنَّاحِيَةِ بِخَمْسِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ وَلَمْ أَنْطِقْ بِهَا فَكَتَبَ إِلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ اقْبِضِ الْحَوَانِيتَ مِنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هَارُونَ بِالْخَمْسِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ الَّتِي لَنَا عَلَيْهِ.

Published English translation

28. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Harun ibn ‘Imran al-Hamadani who has said the following. “I owed five hundred Dinars to the holy location (office of Imam al-Mahdi (a.s.). I felt extremely depressed about it. I said to myself, “The stores that have bought was for five hundred thirty Dinars. I will set them aside for the holy location (office of Imam al-Mahdi (a.s.).” However I had not said anything in words. He wrote to Muhammad ibn Ja‘far, “Take possession of the stores from Muhammad ibn Harun as payment for the five hundred Dinars that he owed us.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/199)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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