Hadith 22

d with me, so I was equipped and the one who had brought me accompanied me honourable to my safety’. The Sheykh Abu Al-Mufazzal, may Allah-azwj Mercy him, said, ‘I mentioned this Hadeeth in a gathering of Abu Waail Dawood Bin Hamdan at Nasibeyn in the year three hundred and twenty-two (322), and on that day there was present in this gathering a man from the people of Nasibeyn called Abu Usman Saeed bin Al-Bunduqy, the poet, and he was from city’s witnesses. Abu Usman said at my words what has preceded from the words of Abu Al-Abbas Bin Kishmard, ‘On my hands was the Hadeeth, and that is I had performed Hajj in the year of Al-Habeyr, and it is the year in which were imprisoned Abu Al-Abbas Bin Kishmard, and Al-Khaal, and Al-Khafal Al Khadim, and others from the faces of friends with Abu Al Heyja’a, and I was imprisoned among the pilgrims the ones who were imprisoned with them. Our imprisonment at Al-Ahsa’a was prolonged, and I used to recite the poetry. I praise the Seyyid Abu Al-Tahir with a poem. Abu Al-Heyja’a conveyed it to him. The Seyyid permitted for me with entering and exiting from the prison. I used to enter to see Abu Al-Abbas Bin Kishmard, and he was comforting with me and discussing with me. One day he sent for me during the pre-dawn before emergence of the sun, and he said to me, ‘Take this note, and it is in a lump of clay, and go with it to a place’. He described it to me, and there was flowing water in it. He said, ‘Read Surah Yaseen, and throw the note in the water! ’
I took it and came to the water, and I loved to pause upon the note (to read it), so I removed the clay from it and spread it, and I read what was in it’. Abu Usman said, ‘I took a piece of wood and moistened it in the water, and I wrote what was in the note upon a shoulder bone, and I wrote my name and name of my father and my mother, and I returned the note into the clay, and I read Surah Yaseen on my behalf, and I washed my hands in the water. Then I read Surah Yaseen on behalf of my father Al-Abbas Bin Kishmard and dropped the note into the water, and I returned to that gathering following emergence of the sun. Only an hour of time had passed and a messenger of the Seyyid came to order my presence. I presented. When he sighted me, he said, ‘There has occurred in my heart mercy for you, and I have worked upon freeing you. How would you like to travel to your family, by land or by sea? ’
I feared from travelling in the land, in case there was a change of mind for him so he would (send someone to) catch up with me and return me, so I said, ‘By sea! ’
He ordered to hand me my sufficient provisions and I went out in the sea. I came to Al-Basra. When it was after three days from my arrival at Al-Basra, I sat with companions of the books. There I was with Abu Al-Abbas Bin Kishmard riding in a large carriage while the rich ones were behind him, and the governor of Al-Basra came out to receive him and the army was in front of him and behind him, and the soldiers were