“My master says you have brought letters from this person...

“My master says you have brought letters from this person and that person and you have with you a purse containing a thousand dinars. Among these thousand dinars is a ten dinar coin which has faded away." The men from Qum were pleased as they could transfer their trust to the true successor of the Imam. Then they released the purse, along with the letters, to the Imam's attendant for handing them to the Imam.

When Abul Adyan witnessed this scene he realized that Imam Hasan Askari's (a.s.) successor was that same five year old child, who prayed over his father's body, demanded from him, the letters and gave news about the contents in the bag. Previous…