Hadith 12

f his–la renegades to ride upon your shoulder’. And Amir Al-Momineen–asws said: ‘And it was so that the fulfilments of the needs and the Answers to the supplications, when Allah-azwj is asked through Him-azwj and Ali–asws and their–asws Progeny-asws, was well known in the ancient times, to the extent that if the afflictions were prolonged with someone, it was said, ‘This prolongation of his affliction is due to his forgetting the supplicating to Allah-azwj by Him-azwj and his–saww goodly Progeny-asws’. And there has been from the wondrous reliefs by the supplication through them–asws: – the relief of a number who had gone walking in the desert to a side of a mountain. So the sky seized them (with a downpour of rain), and they sought shelter to a cave which they had recognised, and they entered in order to save themselves from the rain by it. And it was so that above the cave was a large rock, under which was some mud which was holding it. So the mud dissolved and the rock rolled down and came to be at the door of the cave, and closed it, and the place was dark upon them. And they said to each other, ‘The tracks have been destroyed, and the news is cut off, and none know of our state, and even if they did know, it would not avail us of anything, because there is no strength for the human being with moving this (large) rock from this place. By Allah-azwj! This is (now) our grave in which we would be dying, and from it we would be Resurrected’. Then they said to each other, ‘Didn’t Musa–as Bin Imran–as, and the ones after him–as from the Prophets–as, instructed that whenever a disaster hits us, that we should supplicate to Allah-azwj by Him-azwj and his–saww goodly Progeny-asws? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. They said, ‘We do not know of a disaster greater than this’. And they said, ‘Come! Let us supplicate to Allah-azwj by Him-azwj the noble, the superior, and by his–saww goodly Progeny-asws – and each one of us should mention a good deed from his good deeds which Allah-azwj was intended with, perhaps Allah-azwj would Relieve from us (from this predicament)’. One of them said, ‘O Allah-azwj! Surely, You–azwj Know that I was a man of abundant wealth, of a good state. I built the castles, and the dwellings, and the houses, and there were employees of mine, and among them was a man who was doing the work of two men. When it was evening, I presented him one wage, but he refused and said, ‘But rather, I worked the work of two men, therefore I see the wage of two men. So I said to him, ‘But rather, I bought the work of a man, and secondly, you volunteered (the double work), there is not wage for you (for the extra work done)’. He went away angrily and left it upon me. Then I bought wheat with that wage (money) and sowed it, and watered it, and it grew. Then I harvested what had raised from the ground, and its flourishing and its growth was great. Then I repeated a second time harve