The Birth of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ibn Ali  عليه السلام — report 10

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10ـ إِسْحَاقُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو هَاشِمٍ الْجَعْفَرِيُّ قَالَ شَكَوْتُ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) ضِيقَ الْحَبْسِ وَكَتَلَ الْقَيْدِ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ أَنْتَ تُصَلِّي الْيَوْمَ الظُّهْرَ فِي مَنْزِلِكَ فَأُخْرِجْتُ فِي وَقْتِ الظُّهْرِ فَصَلَّيْتُ فِي مَنْزِلِي كَمَا قَالَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَكُنْتُ مُضَيَّقاً فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَطْلُبَ مِنْهُ دَنَانِيرَ فِي الْكِتَابِ فَاسْتَحْيَيْتُ فَلَمَّا صِرْتُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِي وَجَّهَ إِلَيَّ بِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ وَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ إِذَا كَانَتْ لَكَ حَاجَةٌ فَلا تَسْتَحْيِ وَلا تَحْتَشِمْ وَاطْلُبْهَا فَإِنَّكَ تَرَى مَا تُحِبُّ إِنْ شَاءَ الله.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

10. Ishaq has said that abu Hashim al-Ja‘fari has said the following. “I complained to abu Muhammad عليه السلام about the constraining cell of the prison and the weight of the shackles on me. He wrote back in reply to me. “Today you will pray your noontime prayer in your own home.” I then was released that day and prayed the noontime prayer in my own home as he had said.” I was under financial constrains and I decided to ask him for a certain amount of Dinars in writing but I felt shy. When was going to my home he sent me a hundred Dinars and had written to me this. “If you need anything do not feel shy or embarrassed. Ask and you will find it as you wanted, by the will of Allah.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 124, report 10

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/154)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/124/10. 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.