The Sufficient (Vol 3) · Hadith 1370 (#Ḥadīth #3)

3ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي الْحَسَنِ الأوَّلِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) أَ سَلَّمَ رَسُولُ الله (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فِي الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ الأوَّلَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ وَحَالُهُ حَالُهُ قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَرَادَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يُفَقِّهَهُمْ.

3. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Barqiy from Mansur ibn al-‘Abbas from ‘Amr ibn Sa‘id from al-Hassan ibn Sadaqah who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan al-Awwal , ‘Did the Messenger of Allah say Salam (the phrase of offering greeting of peace) in the first two Rak‘at while his status was as it was? He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes; Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, willed to give them (people) proper understanding?”

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