قَالَ لِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) مَا تُكَنَّى قَالَ قُلْتُ مَا اكْتَنَيْتُ بَعْدُ وَ مَا لِي مِنْ وَلَدٍ وَ لَا امْرَأَةٍ وَ لَا جَارِيَةٍ قَالَ فَمَا يَمْنَعُكَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ حَدِيثٌ بَلَغَنَا عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ وَ مَا هُوَ قُلْتُ بَلَغَنَا عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ قَالَ مَنِ اكْتَنَى وَ لَيْسَ لَهُ أَهْلٌ فَهُوَ أَبُو جَعْرٍ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) شَوْهٌ لَيْسَ هَذَا مِنْ حَدِيثِ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّا لَنُكَنِّي أَوْلَادَنَا فِي صِغَرِهِمْ مَخَافَةَ النَّبَزِ أَنْ يَلْحَقَ بِهِمْ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, form Salih Bin Al Sandy, from Ja’far Bin Basheer, from Saeed Bin Khusaym, from Ma’mar Bin Khusaym who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘What is your teknonym?’ I said, ‘I have not teknonym yet, and there is no son for me, nor a wife, nor a slave girl’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So what prevents you from that?’ He said, ‘I said, ‘A Hadeeth which was reached us from Ali<sup>asws</sup>’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And what is it?’ I said, ‘It has reached us from Ali<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The one who teknonyms (himself) and there is no family for him, so he is the father of dung’. So Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Falsified! This is not from a Hadeeth of Ali<sup>asws</sup>. We<sup>asws</sup> teknonym our<sup>asws</sup> children in their childhood, for fear of the nickname being attached with them’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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