Hadith 284

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported that Dawood Al Raqy said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah-asws. He-asws said to me: ‘What is the matter I-asws see your colour to have changed? ’ I said, ‘Large shameful debt has changed it, and I have thought of sailing the sea to Al-Sind to go to my brother so and so’. He-asws said: ‘Whenever you like’. I said, ‘The horrors of the sea have scared me from it, and its turbulence’. He-asws said: ‘The One-azwj Who Protects you in the land would Protect you in the sea! Had it not been for my-asws name and my-asws soul, neither the rivers would have been steady, nor would the fruits have grown, nor would the trees have turned green’. Dawood said, ‘I sailed the sea until when I was from the coast what Allah-azwj so Desired, after a journey of one hundred and twenty days, I came out before the midday of the day of Friday, there, the sky was cloudy, and there was a shining light from top of the sky to base of the earth, and there was a hidden voice (saying): ‘O Dawood! This is the time of paying off your debts, so raise your head, you are safe! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I raised my head, and I was called out to: ‘Upon you is to be behind the red heap (hill)! ’ I went to it and there was a platelet of red gold. One of its sides was wiped clean, and in the other side was written: ‘This is Our Gift, so either confer or withhold, without a Reckoning [38: 39]. I took possession of it and there was a value for it, which cannot be counted. I said, ‘I will not narrate regarding it until I come to Al-Medina’. I arrived at it and entered to see him-asws. He-asws said to me: ‘O Dawood! But rather, our-asws gift to you is the light which shone for you, not what you went to it, from the gold and silver. But it is for you welcomingly, wholesomely, being a gift from a Benevolent Lord-azwj. So, praise Allah-azwj! ’
Dawood said, ‘I asked his-asws servant Mo’tab. He said, ‘During that time he-asws was narrating to his-asws companions, from them being Khaysama, and Humrn, and Abdul A’ala, facing to them with his-asws face, narrating to them with the like of what you mentioned’. When the Salat presented. He-asws stood up and prayed Salat (leading) them. I asked them all, and they (all) narrated the story to me’’. [120]