The Book of Asceticism · Hadith 110 (#Ḥadīth #22)

بعض أصحابنا عن حنان بن سدير عن حكم الخياط عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال: قلت له: أيجزى الولد الوالد؟ قال: لا إلا في خصلتين: يجده مملوكا فيشتريه فيعتقه أو يكون عليه دين فيقضيه عنه.

23.One of our companions narrated from Ḥanān ibn Sadīr, from Ḥakam al-Khayyāṭ, from Abū Jaʿfar who said to him, “Can a son recompense his father?” He said, “No, except in two cases: he finds him enslaved so he buys him and emancipates him, or he is indebted so he pays off his debt.”

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