The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 1364 (#Ḥadīth #9)

9ـ الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ الْعَلاءِ قَالَ وُلِدَ لِي عِدَّةُ بَنِينَ فَكُنْتُ أَكْتُبُ وَأَسْأَلُ الدُّعَاءَ فَلا يُكْتَبُ إِلَيَّ لَهُمْ بِشَيْءٍ فَمَاتُوا كُلُّهُمْ فَلَمَّا وُلِدَ لِيَ الْحَسَنُ ابْنِي كَتَبْتُ أَسْأَلُ الدُّعَاءَ فَأُجِبْتُ يَبْقَى وَالْحَمْدُ لله.

9. Al-Qasim ibn al-‘Ala’ has said the following. “Several boys were born to me and each time I would write and request for prayer. Nothing would have been written to me about them. They all died. When my son al-Hassan was born I wrote and requested for prayer. The answer came, “He lives and all praise belongs to Allah.”

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