سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ التَّعْلِيمِ فَقَالَ لَا تَأْخُذْ عَلَى التَّعْلِيمِ أَجْراً قُلْتُ الشِّعْرُ وَ الرَّسَائِلُ وَ مَا أَشْبَهَ ذَلِكَ أُشَارِطُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَكُونَ الصِّبْيَانُ عِنْدَكَ سَوَاءً فِي التَّعْلِيمِ لَا تُفَضِّلُ بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Bazie, from Al Fazl Bin Kaseer, from Hassan Al Muallam who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the teaching, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not take the recompense upon the teaching’. I said, ‘The poetry, and the letter writing and what resembles that, stipulating (a price) upon it?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes, after there happen to be children in your presence, (treat them) equal in the teaching, not preferring some over the others’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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