Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on narrating books and Hadith (The virtue of writing and its preservation) 5ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَجِيئُنِي الْقَوْ٠ْ فَأَضْجَرُ وَلا أَقْوَى قَالَ فَاقْرَأْ عَلَيْهِ٠ِنْ أَوَّلِهِ حَدِيثاً وَ٠ِنْ وَسَطِهِ حَدِيثاً وَ٠ِنْ آخِرِهِ حَدِيثاً.

I become tired and weak.’” The Imam said, “Narrate to them a Hadith from the beginning and one from the middle and one from the end.” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/176)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)