He found me depressed and asked...

He found me depressed and asked, "O abu Khalid, why is it that I see you are depressed?" I said, "How can I be not depressed when you are being take to this transgressor and I do not know wha will happen to you." He said, "I will be alright. In so and so month and day come to me on one mile's distance." I then had no worries but count the months and days pass by until that particular day. I then went up to a mile's distance and spent the day there until it was almost sun set.

Suddenly, Satan caused temptations to my heart and I was afraid to doubt in what he had said. At this point I saw figures coming from the direction of Iraq. I went to meet them and abu al-Hassan (a.s.) was in front of them on a mule.

He said, "Is it you O abu Khalid" I said, "Yes, grand son of the Messenger of Allah." He said, " Do not doubt; Satan loved that you had doubts." I then said, "Thanks to Allah Who saved you from them." He said, "I will have a return to them in which I will not find any safety." H 1223, Ch.

120, h 4 Ahmad ibn Mihran and Ali ibn Ibrahim all have narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from al- Hassan ibn Rashid from Ya'qub ibn Ja'far who has said the following "I was in the presence of abu al-Hassan Musa (a.s.) that a Christian man came to see him. At this time we were with him in al-'Urayd. The Christian man said, "I have come to you from a far away place after a difficult journey.

I have been praying to my Lord for thirty years to guide me to the best of the religions and to the best of the servants (of Allah) and the most knowledgeable among them. I saw a person in my dream who described to me a man who lived in 'Ulya' (upper) of Damascus. I went to see that man and I talked to him.

He said , "I am the most knowledgeable one among the people who follow my religion but other than me is more knowledgeable than me I then asked him to guide me to the one who is more knowledgeable than him because I like traveling and I can endure difficulties. I have read the whole Gospel, the Psalms of David and the four parts of Torah. I have read the apparent text of the whole Quran.

The scholar then said to me, " If you would like Christianity I am the most knowledgeable person in it among the Arab and none Arab people. If you would like the knowledge of Judaism then Bati ibn Shurahbil al-Samari is the most knowledgeable person in that religion today.