قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِي ( عليه السلام ) مَا تَقُولُ فِي الْمِسْكِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَبِي أَمَرَ فَعُمِلَ لَهُ مِسْكٌ فِي بَانٍ بِسَبْعِمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ يُخْبِرُهُ أَنَّ النَّاسَ يَعِيبُونَ ذَلِكَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يَا فَضْلُ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ يُوسُفَ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هُوَ نَبِيٌّ كَانَ يَلْبَسُ الدِّيبَاجَ مُزَرَّراً بِالذَّهَبِ وَ يَجْلِسُ عَلَى كَرَاسِيِّ الذَّهَبِ وَ لَمْ يَنْقُصْ ذَلِكَ مِنْ حِكْمَتِهِ شَيْئاً قَالَ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ فَعُمِلَتْ لَهُ غَالِيَةٌ بِأَرْبَعَةِ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ .
Translation
From him, from Abu Al Qasim Al Kufy, from the one who narrated it, from Muhammad Bin Al Waleed Al Kirmany who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> the 2<sup>nd</sup>, ‘What are you<sup>asws</sup> saying regarding the musk?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘My<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup> ordered for musk to be made for him<sup>asws</sup> in a container, for seven hundred Dirhams. So Al-Fazl Bin Sahl wrote to him<sup>asws</sup>, informing him<sup>asws</sup> that the people are refusing that. So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote to him: ‘O Fazl! But do you not know that Yusuf<sup>as</sup>, and he<sup>as</sup> was a Prophet<sup>as</sup>, used to wear the brocade buttoned with the gold, and would sit upon a chair of gold, and that did not reduce anything from his<sup>as</sup> wisdom?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So I made <span class="iTxt">Ghaliya</span> for him<sup>as</sup> for four thousand Dirhams’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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