So, I secluded myself with him in the eastern part of the...

So, I secluded myself with him in the eastern part of the house of Abu Khalifa Al-Hajjaj Bin Abu Otaab Al-Daylami. I presented it (the book) to him. He wept, then said, ‘There is no Hadith in it except that it is truth which I have heard from the reliable ones of the Shiites of Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws , and others’.

تقرير الإمام زين العابدين عليه السلام للكتاب قال أبان: فحججت من عامي ذلك فدخلت على علي بن الحسين عليه السلام، وعنده أبو الطفيل عامر بن واثلة صاحب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله – وكان من خيار أصحاب علي عليه السلام – ولقيت عنده عمر بن أبي سلمة ابن أم سلمة زوجة النبي صلى الله عليه وآله. فعرضته عليه وعلى أبي الطفيل وعلى علي بن الحسين عليه السلام ذلك أجمع ثلاثة أيام – كل يوم إلى الليل – ويغدو عليه عمر وعامر. فقرآه عليه ثلاثة أيام، فقال عليه السلام لي: (صدق سليم، رحمه الله، هذا حديثنا كله نعرفه).

Approval of the Imam Zayn Al-Abideen -asws for the book Abaan said, ‘I went for Pilgrimage during that year. I came to Ali -asws Bin Al-Husayn -asws , and in his -asws presence was Abu Tufayl Aamir Bin Waasila, a companion of the Messenger of Allah -saww – and he was one of the good companions of Ali -asws – and I met in his -asws presence Umar Bin Abu Salma, son of Umm Salma -ra , wife of the Prophet -saww .

I presented it (this book) to him, and to Abu Tufayl, and to Ali -asws Bin Al-Husayn -asws in that gathering for three days – every day until the night – Umar and Aamir came to him -asws as well. I read it out to him -asws for three days. He -asws said to me: ‘Sulaym has spoken the truth, may Allah -azwj have mercy on him. These are our -asws Hadith, we -asws recognise all of them’.

وقال أبو الطفيل وعمر بن أبي سلمة: (ما فيه حديث إلا وقد سمعناه من علي صلوات الله عليه، ومن سلمان ومن أبي ذر ومن المقداد). And so said Abu Al-Tufayl and Umar Bin Abu Salma, ‘There is nothing in it except that, which we have heard it from Ali -asws , and from Salman -ra , and from Abu Dharr -ra , and from Al-Miqdad -ra .