I asked, “And the name?

I asked, “And the name?” He said: “You have been all forbidden from that.” Abul Abbas Ahmad Ibne Ali Ibne Nuh Abul Abbas Sairafi narrates through the chain of narration from Muhammad Ibne Ismail Hasin and Ali Ibne Abdullah Hasin, that the two men said: We entered upon Abu Muhammad Hasan (a.s.) at Samarrah.

There were a group of his devotees and his Shia in his presence when Badr, his servant, entered and said: “O my master, there is a nation, streaked in dust and with uncombed hair, at the gate.” The Imam said: “They are a group of our Shia from Yemen.” The narration is long. The two narrators say, Hasan (a.s.) said to Badr, “Go and bring Uthman Ibne Saeed Amari to us.” It was not long that Uthman entered.

Our master Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.) said to him, “O Uthman go, for you are the representative and the reliable and entrusted man with respect to God’s money. Take from these Yemeni gentlemen the religious dues they have brought.” Then the two narrators continue their narrative until they say: Then we all said: “O our Master, by Allah, Uthman is of the best of your Shia.

You increased our knowledge with respect to his position in your service and that he is your representative and your reliable man in God’s money.” He said: “Yes, and bear witness for me that Uthman Ibne Saeed Amari is my representative and that his son Muhammad is the representative of my son, your Mahdi.” It is mentioned in Ghaibat of Shaykh Tusi that Abu Nasr, who is the great grandson of Amari’s daughter, narrates through his chain of narration that when Hasan Ibne Ali (a.s.) passed away, Uthman Ibne Saeed attended his burial bath and served in all of his rituals of shrouding, scenting, and burial.

He was ordered to be the caretaker in the superficies, and superficies cannot be rejected but through the rejection of the reality of things because of their appearances. The letters of the Master of the Affair (a.s.) to his Shia and the intimate devotees of his father, Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.), containing orders and prohibitions and answers to their queries when they needed to pose questions, would come through Uthman Ibne Saeed and his son Abu Ja’far Muhammad Ibne Uthman.

These letters were in the same handwriting that used to come in the lifetime of Hasan (a.s.). The Shia continued to recognize him as a righteous man until Uthman Ibne Saeed died and his son Abu Ja’far gave him the burial bath and took over the task.