The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 1381 (#Ḥadīth #26)

26ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ كَانَ ابْنُ الْعَجَمِيِّ جَعَلَ ثُلُثَهُ لِلنَّاحِيَةِ وَكَتَبَ بِذَلِكَ وَقَدْ كَانَ قَبْلَ إِخْرَاجِهِ الثُّلُثَ دَفَعَ مَالاً لابْنِهِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ لَمْ يَطَّلِعْ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ فَأَيْنَ الْمَالُ الَّذِي عَزَلْتَهُ لابِي الْمِقْدَامِ.

26. Ali ibn Muhammad has said the following. “Ibn al-‘Ajami in his will had set aside one third of his properties for the holy location (office of the Imam and had written the deed for it. Before he would take the one third out of his properties he gave a certain amount to his son, abu al-Miqdam, of which no one had any knowledge. He (Imam al-Mahdi wrote to him, “Where is the property that you set aside for abu al-Miqdam?”

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