Humbleness — report 10

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

10ـ عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ وَمُحَسِّنِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ نَظَرَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ قَدِ اشْتَرَى لِعِيَالِهِ شَيْئاً وَهُوَ يَحْمِلُهُ فَلَمَّا رَآهُ الرَّجُلُ اسْتَحْيَا مِنْهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) اشْتَرَيْتَهُ لِعِيَالِكَ وَحَمَلْتَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ أَمَا وَالله لَوْ لا أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ لأحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَشْتَرِيَ لِعِيَالِيَ الشَّيْ‏ءَ ثُمَّ أَحْمِلَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

10. It is narrated from him, from Ibn Faddāl and Muḥassin ibn Aḥmad, from Yūnus ibn Yaʿqūb, who said: Abū ʿAbdillāh عليه السلام looked at a man from the people of Medina who had bought something for his family and was carrying it. When the man saw him, he felt shy from him (the Imam). So Abū ʿAbdillāh عليه السلام said: "You bought it for your family and carried it to them. By Allah, if it were not for the people of Medina, I would prefer to buy something for my family and then carry it to them."

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 59, report 10

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/252)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 83

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Arabic witness SHA-256: c01f83b0b3bd9feb7258e9ec7f4eb537d9ef9f2dbd93cac1bc7aec3fde9efec0

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/59/10. 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.