Hadith 168

him-asws, but it was said that the man had died. When I returned the next years to Makkah, I met Abu Al-Hassan-asws and and gave him-asws an answer to his letter. He-asws said: ‘O Ali! Why did you not attend his funeral? ’ I said, ‘That was missed from me’’. [188]
Shueyb Al Aqarquqy said, ‘I sent my slave Mubarak to Abu Al-Hassan-asws and with him were two hundred Dinars, and I wrote a letter with him. Mubarak said to me that he had asked about Abu Al-Hassan-asws (and) it was said that he-asws had gone out to Makkah. I (Mubarak) said, ‘I shall travel between Makkah and Al-Medina at night. There was a caller who called out to me, ‘O Mubarak, slave of Shueyb Al-Aqarquqy! ’ I said, ‘Who are you, O servant of Allah-azwj? ’ He said, ‘I am Moattib. Abu Al-Hassan-asws says to you: ‘Give the letter which is with you and arrive with that which is with you, to Mina! ’’
I descended from my carriage and handed the letter to him, and I went to Mina. I entered to see him-asws and poured the Dinars which were with me, in front of him-asws. He-asws pulled some of them towards him-asws and pushed some of them away from him-asws by his-asws hand. Then he-asws said to me: ‘O Mubarak! Hand over these Dinars to Shueyb and say to him, ‘Abu Al-Hassan-asws says to you: ‘Return these to their places which you had taken them from, for their owners are needy to them’. I went out from his-asws presence and arrived to my master and said what the story of these Dinars was. He said, ‘I had sought fifty Dinars from Fatima in order to complete these Dinars, but she refused to me and said, ‘I want to buy a barren land from so and so, son of so and so’. So I took from her secretly and did not turn to her speech’. Then he called Shueyb (to come) with the scale and weighed them, and behold, these were fifty Dinars’’. [189]
Abu Khalid Al Zubaly said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan-asws lodged at our house during a day of severe cold in an unproductive year, and we were not able upon wood to be igniting the fire with. He-asws said: ‘O Abu Khalid! Bring us-asws some firewood we-asws can be igniting a fire with’. I said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I do not know of any one piece of wood being in this place! ’ He-asws said: ‘Never, O Abu Khalid! Do you see this valley road? Take it, for you shall meet a Bedouin having two loads of firewood with him. Buy them from him and do not bargain with him’. I rode my donkey and went towards the valley road which he-asws had described to me, and there was a Bedouin having two loads of firewood with him. I bought them from him and came to him-asws with them. They ignited (fire) from it that day of their and I came to him-asws with a variety of whatever was with us and he-asws ate from it. Then he-asws said: ‘O Abu Khalid! Look at the shoes of the servants and their slippers. Repair them until we come to you during such and such month’. Abu Khalid said, ‘I wrote down the date of that day. I rode my donkey on the appointed day until I came to a distance of a mile an