The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority)  عليه السلام — report 25

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

25ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ قَالَ كَانَتْ لِي جَارِيَةٌ كُنْتُ مُعْجَباً بِهَا فَكَتَبْتُ أَسْتَأْمِرُ فِي اسْتِيلادِهَا فَوَرَدَ اسْتَوْلِدْهَا وَيَفْعَلُ الله مَا يَشَاءُ فَوَطِئْتُهَا فَحَبِلَتْ ثُمَّ أَسْقَطَتْ فَمَاتَتْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

25. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Salih who has said the following. “I had a female slave that had attracted my attention. I wrote to him (Imam al-Mahdi عليه السلام requesting permission to have a child from her. The answer came, “You may do so but Allah does whatever He wants.” I went to bed with her and she became pregnant. The fetus fell off prematurely and she died.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 125, report 25

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · كالصحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/199)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/125/25. 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.