The Book of Characteristics · Hadith 1164 (#Ḥadīth #1)

22-9 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال: حدثنا أحمد ابن أبي عبد الله البرقي، عن الحسن بن علي بن فضال، عن عبد الله بن بكير، عن عبدالاعلى ابن أعين، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: في كتاب علي عليه السلام دية كلب الصيد أربعون درهما

22-9 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah al-Barqy, on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Faz’zal, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Bakir, on the authority of Abdul Ali ibn A’ayn, on the authority of Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), “It is recorded in Ali’s (MGB) book that the blood money for a hunting dog is forty Dirhams.”

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