The Source of Traditions on Imam al-Riḍā (Vol 2) · Hadith 456 (#Ḥadīth #1)

1 - حَدَّثَنا الْحاكِم أَبُو عَلِي الحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أحْمَدالْبِيْهَقِيُّ بِنِيْسابُورَ سِنَةَ اِثْنَتَيْنِ وَخَمْسِينَثَلاثِمائَةٍ قالَ: حَدَّثَنا مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الصُّوليُّ قالَ: حَدَّثَنا عَوْنُ بْنِ مُحَمَّد، عَن أَبي عباد قالَ: كَانَ جُلُوسُ الرِّضَا a.sُ فِي الصَّيْفِ عَلَى حَصِيرٍ وَفِي الشِّتَاءِ عَلَى مِسْحٍ وَلُبْسُهُ الْغَلِيظَ مِنَ الثِّيَابِ حَتَّى إِذَا بَرَزَ لِلنَّاسِ تَزَيَّنَ لَهُم.

44-1 In the year 352 A.H. (962 A.D.) Al-Hakim Abu Ali Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Bayhaqi in Neishaboor narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Sowli quoted on the authority of Oun ibn Muhammad, on the authority of Abi Abbad, “Ar-Ridha’ sat on straw mats in the summer, and sackcloth in the winter. He usually wore rough clothes except for when he wanted to visit the people. Then he wore better clothes.”

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