The Sufficient (Vol 7) · Hadith 695 (#Ḥadīth #4)

4- وَبِهَذَا الإسْنَادِ أَنَّ رَجُلا نَزَلَ بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَمَكَثَ عِنْدَهُ أَيَّاماً ثُمَّ تَقَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِ فِي خُصُومَةٍ لَمْ يَذْكُرْهَا لأمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَخَصْمٌ أَنْتَ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ تَحَوَّلْ عَنَّا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى أَنْ يُضَافَ الْخَصْمُ إِلا وَمَعَهُ خَصْمُهُ.

4. Through the same chain of narrators as that of the previous Hadith, the following is narrated: “A man once became a guest of ’Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali , and stayed with him for several days. He then presented a case before him (the Imam) for adjudication, which he had not mentioned to him (the Imam) before. He (the Imam) asked, ‘Are you the plaintiff?’ The man replied, ‘Yes, I am the plaintiff.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You must move in another place for lodging; the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has prohibited entertaining a plaintiff as a guest without the presence of the defendant.’”

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