Hadith 381

said to the man: ‘Where is the blue bag wherein are a thousand Dirhams? ’ And the man had lost it in one of his roads. When the Imam-asws mentioned it, the man was embarrassed and said: ‘O my Master-asws! I have lost it in one of the roads’. The Imam-asws said to him: ‘Would you recognise it when you see it? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘O slave! Bring out the blue bag! ’ He brought it out. When the man saw it, he recognised it. The Imam-asws said to him: ‘We-asws were needy to what was in it, so we-asws presented it before your arrival to us’. The man said, ‘O my Master-asws! I seek the answer (to the owner about the arrival or what I have carried to your-asws presence’. He-asws said to him: ‘The answer, we-asws have already written it while you were in the road’’. [262]
He said, ‘And it is reported that one day Al-Mansour called him-asws and rode with him-asws to one of the areas. Al-Mansour sat on a hill over there and to his side, Abu Abdullah-asws. A man came and thought of begging Al-Mansour, then he turned away from him and begged Al-Sadiq-asws (instead). He-asws dug up some sand for him over there, filling his hand three times and said to him: ‘Go and profit! ’
One of the entourages of Al-Mansour said to him, ‘You turned away from the king and begged a poor man who does not own anything! ’ The man said, ‘And the vein of his face puffs up from what he gives. I begged the one I trusted his-asws giving’. Then he came with the soil to his house. His wife said to him, ‘Who gave you this? ’ He said, ‘Ja’far-asws! ’ She said, ‘And what did he say to you? ’ He said, ‘He-asws said to me: ‘Profit! ’’ She said, ‘He-asws is truthful, so go with the little from him-asws to the people of understanding, and I can smell the aroma of the riches in it’. The man took a part from it and went with it to one of the Jews. He gave him, regarding what he had carried from it to him, ten thousand Dirhams, and said to him, ‘Bring me its remainder upon this price’’. [263]