Husain Ibne Mansur Hallaj Husain Ibne Ibrahim narrated to us...

Husain Ibne Mansur Hallaj Husain Ibne Ibrahim narrated to us from Abul Abbas Ahmad Ibne Ali Ibne Nuh, from Abu Nasr Hibatullah Ibne Muhammad Katib Ibne binte Kulthum binte Abi Ja’far Amari, saying, When Allah desired to unveil the affair of Hallaj and manifest his humiliation and to disgrace him, he thought that Abu Sahl Ibne Ismail Ibne Ali Naubakhti (a.s.) was a person that could be deceived by his hoax and taken by his fraud. So he sent after him.

Because of his sheer ignorance, he assumed that Abu Sahl is like the other weaklings in the matter of faith and reckoned that he could be drawn and tricked through his lunacies, and that by commanding Abu Sahl’s loyalty, he will be able to draw yet more followers on the virtue of Abu Sahl’s position in the eyes of the people and his respectability in knowledge and literature. Hallaj sent to him, “I am the representative of the Master of the Age (a.s.).” Through such a message he would…