دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَعِي ثَوْبَانِ فَقَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا إِسْمَاعِيلَ يَجِيئُنِي مِنْ قِبَلِكُمْ أَثْوَابٌ كَثِيرَةٌ وَ لَيْسَ يَجِيئُنِي مِثْلُ هَذَيْنِ الثَّوْبَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ تَحْمِلُهُمَا أَنْتَ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ تَغْزِلُهُمَا أُمُّ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَ أَنْسِجُهُمَا أَنَا فَقَالَ لِي حَائِكٌ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ لَا تَكُنْ حَائِكاً قُلْتُ فَمَا أَكُونُ قَالَ كُنْ صَيْقَلًا وَ كَانَتْ مَعِي مِائَتَا دِرْهَمٍ فَاشْتَرَيْتُ بِهَا سُيُوفاً وَ مَرَايَا عُتُقاً وَ قَدِمْتُ بِهَا الرَّيَّ فَبِعْتُهَا بِرِبْحٍ كَثِيرٍ .
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Bundar, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Al Qasim Bin Is’haq Bin Ibrahim, from Musa Bin Zanjawiya Al Tafleysi, from Abu Umar Al Hannat, from Ismail Al Sayqal Al Razy who said, ‘I went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and with me were two clothes. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘O Abu Ismail! The ones before you have come to me<sup>asws</sup> with numerous clothes and they did not come to me<sup>asws</sup> with the likes of these two clothes which you are carrying’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! The mother of Ismail spun these two, and I weaved these two’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘(You are) a weaver?’ I said, ‘Yes’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not become a weaver’. I said, ‘So what should I become?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Become a polisher’. And there were two hundred Dirhams with me, so I bought swords with it, and old mirrors, and proceded with these to Al-Rayy, and I sold these (after polishing them) for a lot of profit’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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