Hadith 35

gnify your recompense regarding yourself! ’’
He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Al-Abbas did not even reach the hills of Hamdan until he died, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him. And after that, we were carrying the wealth to Baghdad to the nominated deputies, and the letters came out from them’’. [46]
Note: Al-Sadouq, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him, said, ‘This report is evidence upon that the caliph had known this matter, how it wat, and where its place was. Therefore, for this (reason), he refrained from the group and from what wealth was with them, and he repelled Ja’far the liar away from them and did not order them to submit it to him, except that it was obliged that he should hide this matter and not reveal it lest the people are guided to him-ajfj, and they would recognise him-ajfj’. And Ja’far had carried twenty thousand Dinars to the caliph when Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws had passed away. He said to him, ‘O commander of the faithful! Make the rank of my brother-asws to be for me, and his-asws status! ’
The caliph said, ‘Know that the status of your brother-asws did not happen to be with us. But rather, it happened to be with Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. We were struggling in degrading his-asws status and dropping it from him-asws, and Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Refused except to Increase it every day in loftiness due to what dealings were with him-asws and the excellent manners, and the knowledge and the worship. So if you were with your brother’s rank in the presence of the Shias, there would be no need for you to us, and if you do not happen to be with his-asws status in their presence, and there does not happen to be in you what was in your brother-asws, nothing would avail you regarding that’’. [47]
Note: It is reported by Al-Kulayni in Al-Kafi V 1, P 505, a Hadeeth by Ahmad Bin Ubeydullah Bin Khaqan describing in it Abu Muhammad Al-Hassan Al-Askari-asws. He (Muhammad Bin Yahya) said in a Hadeeth: So Ja’far came to my father after that, and he was a minister of Al Mu’tamid Ala Allah Ahmad Bin Al-Mutawakkil. He said, ‘Make the rank of my brother-asws to be for me and I shall send you twenty thousand Dinars every month! ’
My father rebuked him and him hear (an earful) and said to him, ‘O idiot! The sultan has bared his sword regarding the ones who claim that your father-asws and your brother-asws are Imams-asws, in order to return them from that, so why are you preparing that for him? If you were an Imam-asws in the presence of the Shias of your father-asws and your brother-asws, then there is no need for you to the sultan that he should accord you their-asws ranks, nor anyone other than the sultan, and if you do not happen to be with this status in their presence, you will not get it with us! ’
And my father belittled him during that and weakened him, and he instructed that he be barred from him, so there was no permission for him regarding the entry to see him until my father died, and we went out and he was upon that state, and the sultan was seeking the traces of the son-ajfj of Al-Hassan Bin Ali-asws’.