Receive the gifts of your Shiites and friends.

Receive the gifts of your Shiites and friends." The child replied, “Is it right that my pure hands should touch these gifts that are mixed with the lawful and unlawful?" Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.) addressed Ahmad-ibn-Eshaq and said. “Place the bags before my son so that he separates the lawful from the unlawful." Ahmad-ibn-Eshaq placed the bags in front of the child who said: “This bag belongs to so and so, the son of so and so, who lives in such and such a place in Qum.

There are sixty-two dinars in it. Forty-five dinars are from his inheritance; fourteen dinars are the money from sale of nine cloth material pieces and three dinars, the rent from his shops. “You are absolutely right, my son." The Imam said. “Now tell this man of the unlawful money and explain how much it is." The child said. “One dinar, with such a date was minted in the city of Rey. The print on one side of this coin has faded out.

The other unlawful is a piece of gold, the weigh of a quarter dinar." “Dear master! Ahmad-ibn-Eshaq said to the child." Tell me the reason for them being unlawful. The child said, “The owner of this money in such and such a month and such and such a year gave some cotton to a spinner. After a while, robbers broke in to the spinner's shop.

The spinner informed this matter to the owner of the cotton but the latter claimed the spinner was lying, so the spinner gave him more thread that the usual amount. From the thread received from the spinner, this man, wove cloth and then sold it. This dinar and that piece of gold is from the sale proceeds of that same cloth material.

Ahmad-ibn-Eshaq opened the purse, there was a letter with the name of sender and the amount written on it and just had the child had said, there was a piece of gold along with the dinars. Witnessing this incident, I was extremely surprised. Does this child know the supernatural? The Imam looked at me and said. “Sa’ad, what are you here for? Ask the answers to your questions from my son." Until then, I had been silent all along. I turned towards the child and asked him the questions.

I received all the replies from him. For a few days we stayed in Samerra often visiting the Imam's house but we never saw the child with the Imam again. Ahmad-ibn-Eshaq said. “We were fortunate of a great bounty for having met the Imam's successor as the Imam keeps his child hidden from strangers and unworthy people." On the last day, we visited Imam (a.s.) to bid him farewell.