H 266 - Narrated to us a group of scholars from Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Ali bin Husain bin Musa bin Babawayh and Abu Abdullah Husain bin Ali, his brother that: Narrated to us Abu Ja’far Muhammad Ibn Ali Aswad that: Ali Ibn Husain Ibn Musa Ibn Babawayh asked me after the death of Muhammad Ibn Uthman Amari to ask Abul Qasim Ibn Ruh to ask our Master of the Age to pray that Allah gives him a son. I asked him that and he delivered the request. Then he informed me after three days that the Imam has prayed for Ali Ibn Husain and that he will sire a blessed son that Allah will bestow him a son and there will be other sons after him. Abu Ja’far Muhammad Ibn Ali Aswad says, I requested him for myself to pray that may Allah give me a son. He did not give me a reply and said: “This cannot happen.” Ali Ibn Husain had his son Muhammad that year and after him other sons and no son was born to me. Saduq says, Abu Ja’far Muhammad Ibn Ali Aswad would often say to me when he saw me coming to the sessions of our Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Hasan Ibn Ahmad Ibn Walid and my love for books of knowledge and learning, “It is not surprising that you are fond of knowledge; you are born through the Dua of the Imam .”