The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 1330 (#Ḥadīth #2)

2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ كَتَبَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ إِلَى أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ الزُّبَيْرِيِّ قَبْلَ مَوْتِ الْمُعْتَزِّ بِنَحْوِ عِشْرِينَ يَوْماً الْزَمْ بَيْتَكَ حَتَّى يَحْدُثَ الْحَادِثُ فَلَمَّا قُتِلَ بُرَيْحَةُ كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ قَدْ حَدَثَ الْحَادِثُ فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي فَكَتَبَ لَيْسَ هَذَا الْحَادِثَ هُوَ الْحَادِثُ الاخَرُ فَكَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْمُعْتَزِّ مَا كَانَ وَعَنْهُ قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ آخَرَ يُقْتَلُ ابْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَبْدُ الله قَبْلَ قَتْلِهِ بِعَشَرَةِ أَيَّامٍ فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الْعَاشِرِ قُتِلَ.

2. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim ibn Musa ibn Ja‘far who has said the following. “Once abu Muhammad wrote to abu al-Qasim Ishaq ibn Ja‘far al-Zubayri before the death of al-Mu‘tazz by about twenty days as herein below. ‘Stay home until what is to happen will happen.’ When Burayha was killed he wrote to him, “A happening has happened. What would you command me to do?” He wrote back, “This is not the happening. It is another happening.” Then there was the case of al-Mu‘tazz the way it was.” It is narrated from the same narrator that the Imam wrote to another person. “Muhammad ibn Dawud ibn ‘Abdallah will be killed.” It was ten days before his murder. On the tenth day he was killed.”

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