The Book of Characteristics · Hadith 1263 (#Ḥadīth #16)

28-25 حدثنا أبي، ومحمد بن الحسن، وأحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار رضي الله عنهم قالوا: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال: حدثني أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن فضال، [عن الحسن بن علي بن فضال] عن عبد الله بكير، عن عبدالرحمن بن أبي عبد الله قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول: إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله علم عليا عليه السلام [بابا يفتح له] ألف باب كل باب يفتح له ألف باب

28-25 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father, Muhammad ibn al-Hassan and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar - may God be pleased with them - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ahmad ibn al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Fazal, (on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Fazal), on the authority of Abdullah Bakir, on the authority of Abdul Rahman ibn Aba Abdullah that he had heard Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) say, “Indeed God’s Prophet (MGB) taught Ali (MGB) a gate which opens up to one-thousand gates each of which would open up to another one-thousand gates.”

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