The Birth of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ibn Ali  عليه السلام — report 6

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6ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَلِيٍّ الْمُطَهَّرِ أَنَّهُ كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ سَنَةَ الْقَادِسِيَّةِ يُعْلِمُهُ انْصِرَافَ النَّاسِ وَأَنَّهُ يَخَافُ الْعَطَشَ فَكَتَبَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) امْضُوا فَلا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْكُمْ إِنْ شَاءَ الله فَمَضَوْا سَالِمِينَ وَالْحَمْدُ لله رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

6. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from abu ‘Abdallah ibn Salih from his father from abu Ali al-Mutahhar the following. “He wrote to him (abu Muhammad عليه السلام in the year of Qadisiyya, the year of draught that forced people to returned home without performing Hajj for fear of thirst. He wrote back in reply, “continue your journey and you will have no fear by the will of Allah.” They continued their journey to Hajj safely and thanks to Allah.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 124, report 6

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/152)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/124/6. 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.