H 261 - Ibn Nuh said: Narrated to me Abu Abdullah Husain Muhammad bin Surah Qummi when he met us in Hajj that: Narrated to me Ali bin Hasan bin Yusuf Saigh Qummi and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Muhammad Sairafi alias Ibn Dallal etc. from the teachers of people of Qom that Ali Ibn Husain Ibn Musa Ibn Babawayh was married to the daughter of his uncle, Muhammad Ibn Musa Ibn Babawayh, and did not have offspring from her. He wrote to Abul Qasim Husain Ibn Rauh and asked him to request the Imam to pray for him that Allah gives him jurist (Faqih) sons. Reply came, “You will not have children from her. You will have a Dailami slave girl and you will sire two jurist (Faqih) sons from her.” The narrator says that a man had at that time recounted that Abul Hasan Ibn Babawayh has three sons. Muhammad and Husain are very adept jurists and they learn what other people of Qom cannot. They have a brother whose name is Hasan. He is the middle brother and has devoted himself to worship and piety and does not mix with people. He is not a jurist. Whenever the two sons of Abul Hasan narrate something, people are amazed by their learning and they say, “This is by the blessing of the Imam.” This is a very well-known matter in Qom.