The Sufficient (Vol 8) · Hadith 590 (#Ḥadīth #1)

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمٍ الْفَرَّاءِ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) مِثْلَهُ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِهِ إِنَّ الْمَلَكَ لَمَّا قَالَ أَدْخَلَنِيهَا رَبُّهَا عَرَفَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ (عليه السلام) أَنَّهُ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ (عليه السلام) فَقَالَ لَهُ مَا أَهْبَطَكَ قَالَ جِئْتُ أُبَشِّرُ رَجُلًا أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى اتَّخَذَهُ خَلِيلًا فَقَالَ لَهُ إِبْرَاهِيمُ (عليه السلام) فَمَنْ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمَلَكُ وَ مَا تُرِيدُ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ إِبْرَاهِيمُ (عليه السلام) أَخْدُمُهُ أَيَّامَ حَيَاتِي فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمَلَكُ فَأَنْتَ هُوَ.

590. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Suleym Al-Fara’a, from the one whom he mentioned: ‘Abu Abdullah , said in his Hadeeth that: ‘When the Angel said: ‘Its Lord (azwj) Made me enter it’, Ibrahim recognised that he is the Angel of Death. So he said to him: ‘What made you descend?’ He said; ‘I have come to give good news to a man whom Allah (azwj) Blessed and High has Taken as a friend’. So Ibrahim said to him: ‘So who is this man?’ The Angel said to him: ‘And what do you want from him ?’ So Ibrahim said to him: ‘I will serve him for the days of my life’. The Angel said to him : ‘You are him ’.

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