Hadith 150

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported from Al Moalla Bin Muhammad, from one of our companions, from Bakkar Al Qummi who said, ‘I performed forty Hajj. When it was during its last one, I ran out of my expenditure money. I proceeded to Makkah and stayed until the people arrived. Then I went to Al-Medina and visited Rasool-Allah-saww (holy shrine) and looked at my Master-asws Abu Al-Hassan Musa-asws, and perhaps I would do some work with my hands and collect something to be assisted by it upon my road to Al-Kufa. I went out until I came to Al-Medina. I came to (holy shrine of) Rasool-Allah-saww. I greeted unto him-saww, and then went to the praying place to the place in which the workers were standing in, hoping that Allah-azwj would Cause some work to be done by me. While I was like that when I was with a man coming over. The work-seekers gathered around him, so I came and stood with them. He went with a group, and I followed him. I said, ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! I am a stranger. If you see fit, you go with me along with them? ’ He said, ‘Are you from the people of Al-Kufa? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Come’. So I went with him to a big house newly built. I worked in it for days, and we were not given, from a week to a week except one day, and the workers were not working. I said to the representative, ‘Employ me upon them until I make them work and work with them’. He said, ‘I hereby employ you’. So I used to work and making them work. He said, ‘I was standing one day at the ladder when I looked at Abu Al-Hassan Musa-asws coming over, and I was in the ladder in the house. Then he-asws raised his-asws head towards me and said, ‘Bakkar! We have come, get down! ’ I came down. He-asws went aside in a corner. He-asws said to me: ‘What are you doing over here? ’
I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I ran out of all my expense money, so I stayed to the arrival of the people. Then I came to Al-Medina. I went to the chapel and said, ‘I shall seek work’. While I was standing when your-asws representative came and went with (some) men/ I asked him to employ me like what he was employing them. He said to me, ‘Stay this day of yours’. When it was the next morning, and it was the day they were been given it, he came and sat at the door. The representative went on to call man by man, giving him. Every time I went to approach, he said to me with his han