لَمْ يُولَدْ لِي شَيْءٌ قَطُّ وَ خَرَجْتُ إِلَى مَكَّةَ وَ مَا لِي وَلَدٌ فَلَقِيَنِي إِنْسَانٌ فَبَشَّرَنِي بِغُلَامٍ فَمَضَيْتُ وَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَلَمَّا صِرْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ قَالَ لِي كَيْفَ أَنْتَ وَ كَيْفَ وَلَدُكَ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ خَرَجْتُ وَ مَا لِي وَلَدٌ فَلَقِيَنِي جَارٌ لِي فَقَالَ لِي قَدْ وُلِدَ لَكَ غُلَامٌ فَتَبَسَّمَ ثُمَّ قَالَ سَمَّيْتَهُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ سَمِّهِ عَلِيّاً فَإِنَّ أَبِي كَانَ إِذَا أَبْطَأَتْ عَلَيْهِ جَارِيَةٌ مِنْ جَوَارِيهِ قَالَ لَهَا يَا فُلَانَةُ انْوِي عَلِيّاً فَلَا تَلْبَثُ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ فَتَلِدَ غُلَاماً .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Musa Bin Ja’far, from Amro Bin Saeed, from Muhammad Bin Amro who said, ‘There were no births for me at all, and I went out to Makkah and there was no child for me. So a person met me and gave me the good news of a boy. So I passed by and went to Ali<sup>asws</sup> Bin Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> at Al-Medina. So when I came to be in front of him<sup>asws</sup>, he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘How are you, and how is your son?’ So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I went out and there was no child for me. So a neighbour of mine met me, so he said to me, ‘There has been born a boy for you’. So he<sup>asws</sup> smiled, then said, ‘Have you named him yet?’ I said, ‘No’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Name him Ali, for my<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup>, whenever there was a delay by a slave girl from his<sup>asws</sup> slave girls over it, said to her: ‘O so and so! Make the intention (of naming him) Ali’. So it would not be long before she would become pregnant and give birth to a boy’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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