Al-Kafi 14788

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of his companions mentioning it, said, ‘When Al-Mutawakkil specified a vow that if it is fulfilled, he would give a lot of wealth in charity, it was fulfilled, so he asked the jurists about a limit of the ‘lot of wealth’. So they differed over it. Some of them said, ‘One hundred thousand’, and some of them said, ‘ten thousand’. Thus they said differing statements over it confusing the matter. So a man from his barmen called Saf’an said, ‘Why don’t you send (someone) to this blackie to ask from him?’ So Mutawakkil said to him, ‘Whom do you mean, woe be unto you!’ So he said to him, ‘Son^asws of Al-Reza^asws’. So he said to him, ‘And he^asws is better than this thing?’ So he said, ‘If he takes you out from this, so for me upon you would be such and such, or else you can whip me one hundred lashes’. So Al-Mutawakkil said, ‘I am pleased. O Ja’far Bin Mahmoud, go to him^asws and ask him^asws about a limit of the ‘lot of wealth’’. So Ja’far Bin Mahmoud went to Abu Al-Hassan Ali^asws Bin Muhammad^asws, so he asked him^asws about a limit of the ‘lot of wealth’. So he^asws said: ‘(The term) ‘a lot’ is eighty’. So Ja’far said to him^asws, ‘O my master! He would be asking me about the reason with regards to it’. So Abu Al-Hassan^asws said to him: ‘Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:9#h25"><a href="/books/quran:9#h25">[9:25]</a></a> Certainly, Allah helped you in a lot of places</span> – so the number of these places were eight’.

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