Hadith 314

e more trusting than him. So I have sent this upon his hands’. Ja’far-asws said: ‘Return, O you betrayer! I-asws will not be the one to accept her because you have betrayed in what had been entrusted upon! ’ He swore that he had not betrayed. He-asws if one of your clothes were to testify with what you have committed, will you testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj and that Muhammad-saww is Rasool-Allah-saww’? ’ He said, ‘Or if you-asws could excuse me from that’. He-asws said: ‘I-asws shall write to your master with what you have done’. Then Indian said, ‘If you-asws know something, then write! ’ There was a coat upon him, so he-asws instructed him to remove it. Then the Imam-asws stood, performed two ruk’us, then he performed Sajdah. Musa-asws said: ‘I-asws heard him-asws saying in his-asws Sajdah: ‘O Allah-azwj! I-asws ask You-azwj with the Honourable Seat of Your-azwj Throne, and peak of the Mercy from Your-azwj Book, that You-azwj Send Salawaat upon Muhammad-saww, Your-azwj servant and Your-azwj Rasool-saww, and Your-azwj Trustee among Your-azwj creatures, and his-saww Progeny-asws, and that You-azwj Permit for the coat of this Indian to speak with his deed, and Judge in clear Arabic language for the ones from our-asws friends in the gathering to hear, in order for that to be a Sign with them, from the Signs of People-asws of the Household, so they would be increased in Eman along with their (current) Eman! ’
Then he-asws raised his head and said: ‘O you coat! Speak with what you know of the Indian! ’
Musa-asws said: ‘The coat shook and became like a ram and said, ‘O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww! The king had entrusted him upon this slave girl and along with what he had advised him with preserving her until we came to one of the deserts. The rain fell on us and dampened entirety with what was with us. Then the rain withheld, and the sun emerged. A servant who was with the girl to serve her, called Bishr, called out and said, ‘If I were to enter this city, I could come to us with whatever food is therein’. And he handed the Dirhams, and the servant entered the city. He instructed for a spout of this slave girl to come out from her dome to the tent to a pool which he had set