A Comprehensive Compilation of Reliable Narrations · Hadith 405 (#Ḥadīth #3)

[-/3] رجال الكشي: علي بن الحسن، عن عباس بن عامر، عن يونس بن يعقوب قال: كتبت إلى أبي عبد الله عليه السلام أسأله أن يدعو الله لي أن يجعلني ممن ينتصر به لدينه فلم يجبني، فاغتممت لذلك، قال يونس: فأخبرني بعض أصحابنا أنه كتب إليه بمثل ما كتبت فأجابه و كتب في أسفل كتابه: يرحمك الله إنما ينتصر الله لدينه بشر خلقه

3. [3/-] Rijal al-Kashshi: Ali b. al-Hasan from Abbas b. A’mir from Yunus b. Ya’qub who said: I wrote to Abi Abdillah عليه السلام asking him to supplicate to Allah that He makes me among those through whom he gives victory to His religion - but he did not answer me. I became saddened because of that. Yunus said: One of our companions later informed me that he had written to him with a similar request and was answered by him [the Imam] who wrote at the bottom of the letter ‘May Allah have mercy on you, verily Allah gives victory to His religion via the worst of his creatures’

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).