The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority)  عليه السلام — report 26

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

26ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ كَانَ ابْنُ الْعَجَمِيِّ جَعَلَ ثُلُثَهُ لِلنَّاحِيَةِ وَكَتَبَ بِذَلِكَ وَقَدْ كَانَ قَبْلَ إِخْرَاجِهِ الثُّلُثَ دَفَعَ مَالاً لابْنِهِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ لَمْ يَطَّلِعْ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ فَأَيْنَ الْمَالُ الَّذِي عَزَلْتَهُ لابِي الْمِقْدَامِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

26. Ali ibn Muhammad has said the following. “Ibn al-‘Ajami in his will had set aside one third of his properties for the holy location (office of the Imam عليه السلام and had written the deed for it. Before he would take the one third out of his properties he gave a certain amount to his son, abu al-Miqdam, of which no one had any knowledge. He (Imam al-Mahdi عليه السلام wrote to him, “Where is the property that you set aside for abu al-Miqdam?”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 125, report 26

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · 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/1/4/125/26. 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.