دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَخَبَّرْتُهُ أَنَّهُ وُلِدَ لِي غُلَامٌ فَقَالَ أَ لَا سَمَّيْتَهُ مُحَمَّداً قَالَ قُلْتُ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ قَالَ فَلَا تَضْرِبْ مُحَمَّداً وَ لَا تَسُبَّهُ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ قُرَّةَ عَيْنٍ لَكَ فِي حَيَاتِكَ وَ خَلَفَ صِدْقٍ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فِي أَيِّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَضَعُهُ قَالَ إِذَا عَدَلْتَهُ عَنْ خَمْسَةِ أَشْيَاءَ فَضَعْهُ حَيْثُ شِئْتَ لَا تُسْلِمْهُ صَيْرَفِيّاً فَإِنَّ الصَّيْرَفِيَّ لَا يَسْلَمُ مِنَ الرِّبَا وَ لَا تُسْلِمْهُ بَيَّاعَ الْأَكْفَانِ فَإِنَّ صَاحِبَ الْأَكْفَانِ يَسُرُّهُ الْوَبَاءُ إِذَا كَانَ وَ لَا تُسْلِمْهُ بَيَّاعَ الطَّعَامِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَسْلَمُ مِنَ الِاحْتِكَارِ وَ لَا تُسْلِمْهُ جَزَّاراً فَإِنَّ الْجَزَّارَ تُسْلَبُ مِنْهُ الرَّحْمَةُ وَ لَا تُسْلِمْهُ نَخَّاساً فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ شَرُّ النَّاسِ مَنْ بَاعَ النَّاسَ .
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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ja’far Bin Yahya Al Khazaie, from his father Yahya Bin Abu Al A’ala, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so I informed him<sup>asws</sup> that a son had been born unto me. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Did you not name him as Muhammad?’ I said, ‘I have done it’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So neither beat Muhammad, nor insult him. Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Made him a delight for your eye during your lifetime and a true successor from after you’. May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! Into which profession shall I place him?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If you keep him adjust him away from five things, so you can place him wherever you so desire to. Do not submit him as a money-changer, for the money-changer is not safe from the usury; and do not submit him as a seller of the coffins for the owner of the coffins is joyful during the plague when there was one; and do not submit him as a food trader for he would not be safe from the monopolization (hoarding); and do not make him to be a butcher, for the butcher, his mercy is confiscated from him; and do make him as a slave trader, for Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘The most evil of the people is the one who sells the people’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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