He -asws asked: ‘Is it you O abu Khalid?

He -asws asked: ‘Is it you O abu Khalid?’ The narrator said: ‘Yes, O great, great, great grandson of the Rasool Allah -saww .’ The Imam -asws said: ‘Do not doubt; Satan loves that you have doubts.’ The narrator then said: ‘Thanks to Allah -azwj Who saved you -asws from them.’ Imam -asws said: ‘I will soon been taken by them again from which I -asws will not be spared (will be martyred).’ [1] A Story of a Monk and a Nun: Once, the narrator was in the presence of Imam Musa-e-Kazim -asws , when a monk and a nun, from the people of Najran, Yemen, came to see him -asws .

Al-Fadl Ibn Sawwar sought permission for them and the Imam -asws said: ‘Tomorrow bring them to the well of ‘Umm Khayr.’ The narrator has said: ‘On the next day we went to see him -asws and we found the people (the monk and the nun) there also. The Imam -asws ordered to spread a mat that was made of palm tree fibres. He -asws then sat down on it and they also sat down with the Imam -asws . The nun began asking questions. She asked many questions. The Imam -asws answered them all.

Imam Musa-e-Kazim -asws asked her certain questions but she could not answer them. She then accepted Islam. The monk then began to ask questions and the Imam -asws answered whatever he asked. The monk then said: “I was very strong in my religion and no one of the Christians was as knowledgeable as I.

I heard from a man from India who told me about the ‘one’ who could go for pilgrimage to the Holy House in one day and one night and then go back to his home.” I asked: “Where did he live?” I was told that he lived in Sibdhan.

The one who informed me about him said that he knew the knowledge which was with Asif (Barkhiya) an assistant of the Prophet Solomon -as , (with the help of that knowledge) he brought the throne of (Queen) Sheba (from another country) and placed it in front of Prophet Solomon -as (in a flash).