The Birth of abu ‘Abdullah Ja‘far ibn Muhammad  عليه السلام — report 8

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

8ـ سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الاوَّلِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ أَنَا كَفَّنْتُ أَبِي فِي ثَوْبَيْنِ شَطَوِيَّيْنِ كَانَ يُحْرِمُ فِيهِمَا وَفِي قَمِيصٍ مِنْ قُمُصِهِ وَفِي عِمَامَةٍ كَانَتْ لِعَلِيِّ بن الحسين (عَلَيْهما السَّلام) وَفِي بُرْدٍ اشْتَرَاهُ بِأَرْبَعِينَ دِينَاراً.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

8. Sa‘d ibn ‘Abdallah has narrated from abu Ja‘far ibn ‘Umar ibn Sa‘id from Yunus ibn ya‘qub from abu al-Hassan, the first عليه السلام who has said the following. “I shrouded my father with two pieces of winter clothes that he had used as the clothe for Ihram (special clothes used during performing Hajj). Also a shirt of his shirts and the ‘Amama (turban) that belonged to Ali ibn al-Husayn عليه السلام and a gown that he had bought for forty Dinars were used.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 119, report 8

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/119/8. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.