I went toward the mosque and saw people hastening to join his holiness’ audience.

I went toward the mosque and saw people hastening to join his holiness’ audience. I went to his presence, too, and saw him sitting exactly where I had seen the Prophet (S) was sitting in my dream and there was a straw mat under his feet similar to the mat which was under the Prophet (S)’s feet and that there was a large dish of Sayhani dates before him. I greeted him; he greeted back and called me forth and gave me a fistful of those dates.

I counted the dates and found they were the same number that the Prophet had given me in my dream. I said, ‘O Son of Rasul Allah [S]! Grant me more!’ His holiness said, ‘If Rasul Allah had granted you more, I would grant you more too.”[^5] Ahvaz According to the traditions, his holiness fell sick in Ahvaz. Abu Hashim Ja‘fari had a meeting with the Imam. It was summer time and extremely hot.

They called in a physician and the Imam introduced an herb as medicine to the physician and told him the properties. But the physician said, “This herb cannot be found in this time of the year.” His holiness said, “Bring in some sugar cane.” The Physician said, “This is even more difficult than the first to find since it is not the time for sugar cane.” The Imam said, “Sugar cane and that herbal medicine are both available in this land.

Pass by that tent, there is a man with a dark skin next to the mill, ask him.” They sent out someone to that place to get those two. When Raja’ b. Abi al-Ḍahhak (the man in charge of the Imam’s journey) found out about it, he said to his companions: “If we stay here longer, people will be enchanted by him.” Then, they left the place.[^6] While his holiness was leaving Ahvaz, Ja‘far b. Muhammad al-Nawfili attended his presence near Arbaq bridge and said to his holiness: “May I be your ransom!

Some people imagine your father is alive.” The Imam answered: ‘They are telling lies; may Allah’s curse be upon them; if my father had been alive, his inheritance would not have been divided and his wives would not have gotten married. By God, my father tasted death as did ‘Ali b.