Hadith 150

d, like this, until when I was among their last’. He-asws said: ‘To me-asws, come near! ’ I went near. He-asws handed a pouch to me wherein were fifteen Dinars. He-asws said to me: ‘Take this as your expense money to Al-Kufa’. Then he-asws said: ‘Go tomorrow morning’. I said, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for you-asws! ’ And I was not able to reject it. Then he-asws went, and the messenger returned to me. He said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan-asws said: ‘Come to me-asws tomorrow before you go’. When it was the next morning, I went to him-asws. He-asws said; ‘Go out now until you come to Feyd, and you will come across a people going to Al-Kufa and take this letter and hand it over to Ali Bin Abu Hamza’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I went, and no by Allah-azwj, no people met me until I came to Feyd. There were a people who were preparing for the going out to Al-Kufa the next morning. I bought a camel and accompanied them to Al-Kufa. I entered it at night. I said, ‘I shall go to my house and sleep this night of mine, then early morning I shall to with the letter of my Master-asws to Ali Bin Abu Hamza’. I came to my house and was informed that the thieves had entered my shop a few days before my arrival. When it was morning, I prayed the Fajr Salat. While I was seated thinking regarding what had gone for me from my shop, when I was with someone knocking at the door. I went out and there it was Ali Bin Abu Hamza. I hugged him and he greeted unto me, he then said to me, ‘O Bakkar! Give the letter of my Master-asws’. I said, ‘Yes, I was going to come to you right now’. He said, ‘Give! I know that you arrived in the evening’. I extracted the letter and handed it to him. He took it and kissed it and placed it upon his eyes, and wept. I said, ‘What makes you cry? ’ He said, ‘Yearning to my Master-asws’. He opened it and read it, then raised his head and said, ‘O Bakkar! The thieves (had come) to you? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. (He said), ‘And they took whatever was in your shop? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Allah-azwj has Replaced upon you. Your as well as my Master-asws has ordered me that I replace upon you whatever has gone from you, and he-asws has given me forty Dinars’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I evaluated what had gone, and behold, its value was forty Dinars. He opened the letter to me he-asws had said in it: ‘Hand over to Bakkar the value of what has gone from his shop, forty Dinars’’. [165]