28-29 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father, Muhammad ibn al-Hassan and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar - may God be pleased with them - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Yaqoob ibn Yazid, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, on the authority of Marazim ibn Hakim al-Azodi that Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) said,

“God’s Prophet (MGB) taught Ali (MGB) one-thousand gates each of which opens up to another one-thousand gates.”