Don’t you see the ground how it is preventing from digging a...

Don’t you see the ground how it is preventing from digging a grave for him -asws ?’ I said, ‘O commander of the faithful! He -asws had instructed me that I should strike one shove in the direction of the grave of commander of the faithful your father Al Rasheed. I will not strike other than it’. He said, ‘When you have struck, O Harsama, what would happen?’ I said, ‘He -asws informed that it is not allowed for the grave of your father to be a Qiblah for his -asws grave.

So if I were to strike this one shovel, it would get to the pre-dug grace from without a hand having dug it, and a shrine would appear in its midst’. Al-Mamoun said, ‘Glory be to Allah -azwj ! How strange is this talk, and it is not strange from the matter of Abu Al-Hassan -asws , therefore strike, O Harsama, until we see!’ Harsama said, ‘I grabbed the shovel by my hand, and I struck in the direction of the grave of Haroun Al-Rasheed.

It immersed to a pre-dug grave, and a shrine appeared in its midst, and the people were looking at it. He said, ‘Descend him -asws into it, O Harsama!’ I said, ‘O commander of the faithful! My Master -asws had instructed me that I should not descend him -asws into it until white water bursts out from the ground of this grave, and the grave is filled from it, until the water becomes with the surface of the ground. Then a fish would be restless in it, in the length of the grave.

When the fish disappears and the water sinks, I should place him -asws at the side of his -asws grave and vacate between him -asws and his -asws tomb’. He said, ‘Do so, O Harsama, what you have been instructed with!’ Harsama said, ‘I awaited the appearance of water and the fish. It appeared, then disappeared, and the water sank, and the people were looking at it. Then I made the bier to be to the side of his -asws grave and covered his -asws grave with a white cloth, not spreading it.

Then I descended with him -asws to his -asws grave without my hands nor the hand of anyone else from the ones present. Al-Mamoun indicated to the people that they should take the soil with their hands and drop it into it. I said, ‘Do not do it, O commander of the faithful!’ He (the narrator) said, ‘He said, ‘Woe be to you!

So who will fill it?’ I said, ‘He -asws had instructed me not to drop the soil upon him -asws , and he -asws informed me that the grave would form itself, then it would layer up, and square up upon the surface of the ground’. Al-Mamoun indicated to the people that they should stop.