Hadith 47-30

حَدَّثَنا أَحْمَدِ بْنِ الهارون الفامي رَحْمَةُ اللَّه قالَ: حَدَّثَنا مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بطةحَدَّثَنا مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الحَسَن الصَفَّار عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى بْنِ عُبِيْد عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عمر بْنِ بزيع قالَ كَانَ عِنْدِي جَارِيَتَانِ حَامِلَتَانِ فَكَتَبْتُ إِلَى الرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ أُعْلِمُهُ ذَلِكَ وَأَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يَدْعُوَاللَّهَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ مَا فِي بُطُونِهِمَا ذَكَرَيْنِ وَأَنْ يَهَبَ لِي ذَلِكَ قَالَ فَوَقَّعَ‏ عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ أَفْعَلُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ ابْتَدَأَنِي‏ عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ بِكِتَابٍ مُفْرَدٍ نُسْخَتُهُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ عَافَانَا اللَّهُ وَإِيَّاكَ بِأَحْسَنِ عَافِيَةٍ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآْخِرَةِ بِرَحْمَتِهِ الأُمُورُ بِيَدِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُمْضِي فِيهَا مَقَادِيرَهُ عَلَى مَا يُحِبُّ يُولَدُ لَكَ غُلامٌ وَجَارِيَةٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَسَمِّ الْغُلامَ مُحَمَّداً وَالْجَارِيَةَ فَاطِمَةَ عَلَى بَرَكَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَالَ فَوُلِدَ لِي غُلامٌ وَجَارِيَةٌ عَلَى مَا قَالَ‏ عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ.

Ahmad ibn Harun al-Fami - may God have Mercy upon him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Ja’far ibn Batta quoted on the authority of Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan al-Saffar, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Obayd, on the authority of Musa ibn Umar ibn Bazee’, “I had two slave-wives who were both pregnant. I wrote a letter to Ar-Ridha’ (a.s.) in which I informed him about this and asked him (a.s.) to ask the Sublime God for both of them to be boys and that God grant me this gift. In response, the Imam (a.s.) wrote, ‘God - the Sublime - willing I shall pray.’ Then the Imam (a.s.) wrote me another letter in which he (a.s.) wrote, ‘In the Name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful. May God grant us and you the best of health in this world and the Hereafter with His Mercy! Beware that the affairs are in the hands of God the Honorable the Exalted. He runs the affairs according to His Own Will. The Sublime God willing you will be granted a boy and a girl. Call the boy Muhammad and call the girl Fatima with God’s Blessings!’” The narrator added, “Then as the Imam (a.s.) had foretold, I had one boy and one girl.”