[5] محمد بن يعقوب...
[5] محمد بن يعقوب: عن علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن عيسى، عن يونس، عن حماد، عن عبد الله بن سنان، عن أبي الجارود، قال: قال أبو جعفر (عليه السلام): «إذا حدثتكم بشيء فاسألوني عنه من كتاب الله» ثم قال في بعض حديثه: «إن رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) نهى عن القيل، و القال، و فساد المال، و كثرة السؤال» فقيل له: يا بن رسول الله، أين هذا من كتاب الله؟ Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Hamaad, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from Abu Al Jaroud who said, ‘Abu Ja’far -asws said: ‘When you come up across something new from the Book of Allah -azwj , so ask me -asws about it’.
Al-Ayyashi, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws , and he -asws wrote at the end of it, ‘Or will you not end from the numerous questions. But you refused from ending. Beware of that, for rather, destroyed were the ones before you due to the (high) frequency of their questions . Allah -azwj Blessed and Exalted Said: O you who believe! Do not ask about things, if it is declared to you it would offend you [5:101] ’’.
[7] Additional Ahadith are included in Appendix: To Whom Questions are to be Directed and how?