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Two Ahadith are cited below: عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنْ أَبِي عِيسَى عَنِ الْبَزَنْطِيِّ قَالَ: بَعَثَ الرِّضَا ع إِلَيَّ بِحِمَارٍ فَرَكِبْتُهُ وَ أَتَيْتُهُ وَ أَقَمْتُ عِنْدَهُ بِاللَّيْلِ إِلَى أَنْ مَضَى مِنْهُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَنْهَضَ قَالَ لَا أَرَاكَ أَنْ تَقْدِرَ عَلَى الرُّجُوعِ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ قُلْتُ أَجَلْ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ (The book) ‘Uyoon Akhbar Al-Reza -asws ’ – Ibn Al-Waleed, from Al-Saffar, from Abu Isa, from Al Bazanty who said, ‘Al-Reza -asws sent a donkey to me, so I rode it and went to (see) him -asws , and I stayed with him -asws at night there passed from it what Allah -azwj so Desired.

When I wanted to get up, he -asws said: ‘I do not see you being able upon returning to Al-Medina’. I said, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for you -asws !’ قَالَ فَبِتْ عِنْدَنَا اللَّيْلَةَ وَ اغْدُ عَلَى بَرَكَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قُلْتُ أَفْعَلُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَقَالَ يَا جَارِيَةُ افْرُشِي لَهُ فِرَاشِي وَ اطْرَحِي عَلَيْهِ مِلْحَفَتِيَ الَّتِي‏ أَنَامُ فِيهَا وَ ضَعِي تَحْتَ رَأْسِهِ مَخَادِّي He -asws said: ‘Spent the night with us and go tomorrow morning upon the Blessings of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

I said, ‘I shall do so, may I be sacrificed for you -asws !’ He -asws said: ‘O maid! Furnish my -asws bed for him -asws and drop my -asws quilt upon it which I -asws tend to sleep in it and place my -asws pillow under his head!’ قَالَ قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي مَنْ أَصَابَ مَا أَصَبْتُ فِي لَيْلَتِي هَذِهِ لَقَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِي مِنَ الْمَنْزِلَةِ عِنْدَهُ وَ أَعْطَانِي مِنَ الْفَخْرِ مَا لَمْ يُعْطِهِ أَحَداً مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا بَعَثَ إِلَيَّ بِحِمَارِهِ فَرَكِبْتُهُ وَ فَرَشَ لِي فِرَاشَهُ وَ بِتُّ فِي مِلْحَفَتِهِ وَ وُضِعَتْ لِي مَخَادُّهُ مَا أَصَابَ مِثْلَ هَذَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا He (the narrator) said, ‘I said within myself, ‘Who can achieve what I have achieved during this night of mine?