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The Birth of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ibn Ali  عليه السلام — report 15

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

15ـ إِسْحَاقُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ كَانَ لِي فَرَسٌ وَكُنْتُ بِهِ مُعْجَباً أُكْثِرُ ذِكْرَهُ فِي الْمَحَالِّ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ يَوْماً فَقَالَ لِي مَا فَعَلَ فَرَسُكَ فَقُلْتُ هُوَ عِنْدِي وَهُوَ ذَا هُوَ عَلَى بَابِكَ وَعَنْهُ نَزَلْتُ فَقَالَ لِيَ اسْتَبْدِلْ بِهِ قَبْلَ الْمَسَاءِ إِنْ قَدَرْتَ عَلَى مُشْتَرِي وَلا تُؤَخِّرْ ذَلِكَ وَدَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا دَاخِلٌ وَانْقَطَعَ الْكَلامُ فَقُمْتُ مُتَفَكِّراً وَمَضَيْتُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِي فَأَخْبَرْتُ أَخِي الْخَبَرَ فَقَالَ مَا أَدْرِي مَا أَقُولُ فِي هَذَا وَشَحَحْتُ بِهِ وَنَفِسْتُ عَلَى النَّاسِ بِبَيْعِهِ وَأَمْسَيْنَا فَأَتَانَا السَّائِسُ وَقَدْ صَلَّيْنَا الْعَتَمَةَ فَقَالَ يَا مَوْلايَ نَفَقَ فَرَسُكَ فَاغْتَمَمْتُ وَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ عَنَى هَذَا بِذَلِكَ الْقَوْلِ قَالَ ثُمَّ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ بَعْدَ أَيَّامٍ وَأَنَا أَقُولُ فِي نَفْسِي لَيْتَهُ أَخْلَفَ عَلَيَّ دَابَّةً إِذْ كُنْتُ اغْتَمَمْتُ بِقَوْلِهِ فَلَمَّا جَلَسْتُ قَالَ نَعَمْ نُخْلِفُ دَابَّةً عَلَيْكَ يَا غُلامُ أَعْطِهِ بِرْذَوْنِيَ الْكُمَيْتَ هَذَا خَيْرٌ مِنْ فَرَسِكَ وَأَوْطَأُ وَأَطْوَلُ عُمُراً.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

15. Ishaq has said that narrated to me Ali ibn Zayd ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali عليه السلام the following. “I had a horse that I liked very much and I would admire it often in gatherings. One day I went to see abu Muhammad عليه السلام and he said, “What has your horse done?” I said, “I still have it and it is in front of your. I just dismounted it.” He said, “Change it before this evening if you can if you would find a buyer and do not delay.” Someone came in and our conversation discontinued. I then left anxiously for home and informed my brother about it and he said, “I do not know what to say about it.” I felt covetous about it procrastinated in offering for sale until it was evening we had just prayed the late evening prayer that the horse trainer came in saying, “My master your horse has died.” I became sad and realized that this was abu Muhammad عليه السلام meant. After several day I went to see abu Muhammad عليه السلام and I was saying to myself, “I wish he would replace my horse with another one. It was his words that made me so sad.” When I sat down he said, “Yes, we will replace your horse. Young man, give to him my dark brown nag which better than your horse to ride and will live longer.”
Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 124, report 15

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/159)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/124/15. 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.

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/124/15. 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.

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