\n Abu Al-Hassan -asws called me...

\n Abu Al-Hassan -asws called me, \u2018O Saed, hold on until they bring you candles. In a little while they brought me a candle, I climbed down and found him with a woollen gown on him -asws and woollen cap. In front of him there was a prayer rug with a mat on it and I had no doubt that he -asws was praying.

He -asws said to me, \u2018The rooms are over there.\u2019 I then searched them but did not find anything except for the bag of money that was sealed with the insignia of the mother of al-Mutawakkil on it and another sealed bag of money. He said to me, \u2018There is the prayer rug.\u2019 I lifted it up and there was a sword underneath in a sheath. I took them to Al-Mutawakkil. When he saw the insignia of his mother on it he called her for inquiry and she came to him.

Private servants informed me that she said to him, \u2018When you were very ill, I had vowed out of frustration that if you recovered I would pay the Imam -asws ten thousand Dinars from my own properties. I paid him -asws and this is my own seal.\u2019 \n He opened the other bag and there were four hundred Dinars in it.\u00a0 Al-Mutawakkil added another bag of money to it and asked me to deliver them to Abu Al-Hassan -asws .

I returned the sword and the bags of money to him saying, \u2018My master, (I wish you knew) how much this assignment has depressed me.\u2019 The Imam -asws said, \u2018The unjust ones will find out very soon the destination in which they will end up.\u2019\u2019 [3] \n The narrator says in a Hadith: \u2018Mohammed ibn al-Faraj told me that Abu al-Hassan -asws (our 10 th Imam -asws ) had written to him that: \u2018O Mohammed, organize your affairs and be careful.\u2019 He (Mohammed ibn al-Faraj) said, \u2018I began to organize my affairs and I did not know what the Imam -asws meant until the police came to me and took me out of Egypt as a captive.

All of my belongings were confiscated and I remained in prison for eight years. In the prison I received a letter from the Imam -asws that said, \u2018O Mohammed, do not reside in the western location.\u2019 I read the letter and said to myself, \u2018The Imam -asws has told me this whilst I am still in prison. This is strange.\u2019 Shortly afterwards, I was released, thanks to Allah -azwj . \n \u2018The narrator has said that Mohammed ibn al-Faraj wrote to him -asws about his properties.