Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce َانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَبِي زُهْرَةَ عَنْ أُ٠ِّ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ ٠ِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فَقَالَ أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تَصْنَعِينَ يَا أُ٠َّ الْحَسَنِ قُلْتُ أَغْزِلُ فَقَالَ أَ٠َا إِنَّهُ أَحَلُّ الْكَسْبِ أَوْ ٠ِنْ أَحَلِّ الْكَسْبِ. 32.

Ahmad ibn Muhammad from has narrated from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa from abu Zuhrah from ‘Umm al-Hassan who has said the following: “Once, ’Amir al-Mu’minin (a.s.), passed by and asked, ‘What are you doing O ‘Umm al- Hassan?’ I replied, ‘I am spinning to make yarn.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘That is a very sweet way of earning’ -or that he said- ‘of the sweetest way of earning.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/429))