The Birth of Abu Ja‘far, Muhammad ibn Ali, the Second  عليه السلام — report 8

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8ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ دِعْبِلِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَأَمَرَ لَهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ فَأَخَذَهُ وَلَمْ يَحْمَدِ الله قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ لِمَ لَمْ تَحْمَدِ الله قَالَ ثُمَّ دَخَلْتُ بَعْدُ عَلَى ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَأَمَرَ لِي بِشَيْ‏ءٍ فَقُلْتُ الْحَمْدُ لله فَقَالَ لِي تَأَدَّبْتَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

8. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Salj ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn al-Hakam who has said the following. “Di‘bil ibn Ali once went to see abu al-Hassan al-Rida عليه السلام and he ordered his people to give him a certain gift but he did thank Allah.” The narrator has said that the Imam عليه السلام said to him, “Why did you not thank Allah?” The narrator has said that then I went to see abu Ja‘far عليه السلام and ordered his people to give a gift and I said, “All praise belongs to Allah.” The Imam عليه السلام said, “You just demonstrated your discipline.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 122, report 8

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/105)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/122/8. 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.