Hadith 44

f-azwj that I-azwj will not Accept that thanks by a servant for My-azwj bounty which I-azwj had Favoured upon him, until he thanks the one from My-azwj creatures who had ushered it to him! ”’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I left with the Hadeeth to go to Ali Bin Al-Furaat, and he was in a gathering of Abu Al-Abbas Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Al-Furat, and I mentioned what had transpired. He liked the Hadeeth and copied it and returned me during the time to Abu Ahmad Ubeydullah Bin Abdullah with vast gifts from the gifts of his brother. I delivered to him. He accepted it and was cheered by it. He wrote to him (a couplet), ‘Thanking you is tied with my Eman, being a rule in my privacy and my openness. A belief of conscience, and a speaking mouth, and a deed of the limbs and the body parts’. I said, ‘May Allah-azwj Honour the commander! This (couplet) is even more excellent than the first! He said, ‘More excellent than it is what I have stolen from it’. I said, ‘And what is it? ’
He said, ‘It is narrated to us by Abu Al-Salt Abdul Salam Bin Salih at Neshapur. He said, ‘It is narrated to me by Abu Al-Hassan Ali-asws Bin Musa Al-Reza-asws. He-asws said: ‘It is narrated to me-asws by my-asws father-asws Musa Al-Kazim-asws. He-asws said: ‘It is narrated to me-asws by Ja’far Al-Sadiq-asws. He-asws said: ‘It is narrated to me-asws by my-asws father Muhammad-asws Bin Ali Al-Baqir-asws. He-asws said: ‘It is narrated to me-asws by my-asws father-asws Ali Al-Sajjad-asws. He-asws said: ‘It is narrated to me-asws by my-asws father-asws Al-Husayn-asws, the grandson-asws (of Rasool-Allah‑saww). He-asws said: ‘It is narrated to me by my-asws father-asws Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. He-asws said: ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘The Eman is a belief with the hearth, and spoken by the tongue, and worked by the body parts’’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I returned to Abu Al-Abbas Bin Al-Furat and narrated the Hadeeth to him. He copied it. Abu Ahmad said, ‘Abu Al-Salt was in a gathering of my brother at Neshapur and his gathering was attended by the jurists of Neshapur and companions of Hadeeth. From them and among them was Is’haq Bin Rahwiya. Is’haq faced towards Abu Al-Salt. He said, ‘O Abu Al-Salt! Which chain of attribution is this? How strange it is and how marvellous! ’ He said, ‘This is a snuff of the madmen which when the madman sniffs it, he would be cured by the Permission of Allah-azwj the Exalted’. Abu Al-Mufazzal said, ‘I narrated to Abu Ali Bin Hammam about what had preceded from his Hadeeth, from Abu Ahmad, and he asked me regarding the second Hadeeth that I should dictate it to him from a reason of the increase in it, and the poem. So I dictated it to him’’. [48]