3. He said: Abul Qasim Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Qawlawayh, may Allah bless him with mercy, reported to me from his father, who reported from Sa’d ibn Abdillah, from Ahmad ibn Abu Abdillah al-Barqi, who reported from Sulaiman Ibn Salemah al-Kindi, from Muhammad ibn Saeed ibn Ghazwan, and Isa ibn Abu Mansur, from Aban ibn Taghlib, who reported that:

Abu Abdillah Ja’far ibn Muhammad said: "A person who sighs in grief over the wrongs meted out to us, that sigh is extolment of Allah, and his anxiety about us is an act of worship, and to conceal our secrets is a struggle in the way of Allah." Then Abu Abdillah, said: "This tradition ought to be written in gold."