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Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 159
32- أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَبِي زُهْرَةَ عَنْ أُمِّ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ مَرَّ بِيَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ أَيَّ شَيْءٍ تَصْنَعِينَ يَا أُمَّ الْحَسَنِ قُلْتُ أَغْزِلُ فَقَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ أَحَلُّ الْكَسْبِ أَوْ مِنْ أَحَلِّ الْكَسْبِ.
32. Ahmad ibn Muhammad from has narrated from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa from abu Zuhrah from ‘Umm al-Hassan who has said the following: “Once, ’Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام, passed by and asked, ‘What are you doing O ‘Umm al- Hassan?’ I replied, ‘I am spinning to make yarn.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘That is a very sweet way of earning’ -or that he said- ‘of the sweetest way of earning.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/429)
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