Al-Kāfi - The Book of Dresses, Beautification and Kindness

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Dresses, Beautification and Kindness Chapter: Beautification and Showing the Bounty عَنْهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَدِيدٍ عَنْ ٠ٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى ٠ٍ قَالَ إِنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلا٠) اشْتَدَّتْ حَالُهُ حَتَّى تَحَدَّثَ بِذَلِكَ أَهْلُ الْ٠َدِينَةِ فَبَلَغَهُ ذَلِكَ فَتَعَيَّنَ أَلْفَ دِرْهَ٠َّ بَعَثَ بِهَا إِلَى صَاحِبِ الْ٠َدِينَةِ وَ قَالَ هَذِهِ صَدَقَةُ ٠13.

It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from Ali ibn Hadid from Murazim ibn Hakim from ‘ Abd al-‘A’la’ Mawla’Ale Sam who has said the following: “Ali ibn al-Husayn, ‘Alayhim al-Salam, lived in serious financial condition and people of al-Madinah began to speak about it. It came to his notice.

He assigned one thousand dirham and sent it to the governor of al-Madinah saying, ‘It is the charity due on our assets.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/314))