The Sufficient (Vol 2) · Hadith 2331 (#Ḥadīth #2)

2ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ عَبْدِ السَّلامِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ هَارُونَ مَوْلَى آلِ جَعْدَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) اكْتُبْ بِسْمِ الله الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ مِنْ أَجْوَدِ كِتَابِكَ وَلا تَمُدَّ الْبَاءَ حَتَّى تَرْفَعَ السِّينَ.

2. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from Muhammad ibn Ali from al-Hassan ibn Ali from Yusuf ibn ‘Abd al-Salam from Sayf ibn Harun Mawla Ale (family) Ju’dah who has said the following:“Abu ‘Abd Allah has said, ‘Write “(I begin) in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful,” with the best of your handwriting. Do not extend the letter ‘B’ more than the letter ‘S’.’” [Note: this may apply to kufi handwriting only].

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