عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ:
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لَا تَكْتُبْ دَاخِلَ الْكِتَابِ لِأَبِي فُلَانٍ وَ اكْتُبْ إِلَى أَبِي فُلَانٍ وَ اكْتُبْ عَلَى الْعُنْوَانِ لِأَبِي فُلَانٍ.
Read English translationHide English translationMuhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn
4. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Muhammad ibn Ali from al-Nadr ibn Shu’ayb from Aban ibn ‘Uthman from al-Hassan ibn al-Sari from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Do not write in the letter: ‘For abu so and so’ but write ‘To abu so and so’. In the address area one should write, ‘For abu so and so’.”
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.
Hadith gradings
1- ضعيفAllamah Baqir al-MajlisiMirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/581)