Al-Kafi 9500

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Fazzal, from Sa’albat Bin Maymoun, from the one who reported it, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws that Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws married a slave-girl who was for Al-Hassan Bin Ali^asws. So (the news of) that reached Abdul Malik Bin Marwan. So he wrote to him^asws a letter regarding that, ‘You^asws have become a husband of the slave girl’. So Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws wrote to him: ‘Allah^azwj has Raised by Al-Islam the despicability (evil) and completed the short-comings with it, and exonerated the blames by it. Thus, there is no blame upon a Muslim person, but rather the blame is upon the ignorance. Rasool-Allah^saww got his slave married, and married his^saww slave girl’. So when the letter ended up to Abdul Malik Bin Marwan, he said to the ones in his presence, ‘Inform me about a man, when there comes upon him what humbles the people, it does not increase him except in nobility’. They said, ‘That is the commander of the faithful’. He said, ‘No, by Allah^azwj, he is not that’. They said, ‘We do not know (of such a person) except for the commander of the faithful’. He said, ‘No, by Allah^azwj! He is not the commander of the faithful, but he is Ali^asws Bin Al Husayn^asws’.

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