Hadith 221

Al Kitab Al Ateeq of Al Garwy Abu Al Fat’h Ghazi Bin Muhammad Al Taraify, from Ali Bin Abdullah Al Maymouny, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Ma’mar, from Ali Bin Yaqteen Bin Musa Al Ahwazy who said, ‘I was a man on the doctrine of the Mutazilites, and there used to reach me from the matters of Abu Al-Hassan Ali-asws Bin Muhammad-asws what I used to mock with, and not accept it. My situation called me to enter Surmanray to meet the sultan, so I entered it. When it was the day of the appointment with the sultan, the people were riding to the field. When it was the morning, the people rode in carriage of reeds, in their hands were fans, and Abu Al-Hassan-asws rode in winter clothes and upon him a thick coat and a cap, and upon his-asws saddle was a long protective armour, and he-asws had tied the tail of his-asws animal, and the people were mocking with him-asws, and he-asws was saying: Their appointed time is the morning; is not the morning near? ’ [11: 81]’. When they were in the middle of the desert and they had crossed between the two wall, a cloud arose and the sky let down its rain, and the animals were immersed up to their knees in the mud, and their tails were polluted. They returned in ugly clothes and Abu Al-Hassan-asws returned in good clothes, and nothing had hit him-asws from what had hit them. I said, ‘If Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic had Notified him-asws upon this secret, then he-asws is a Divine Authority’. Then he-asws took shelter with one of the pavilions. When he-asws was near, he-asws took off the cap and made it to be upon the holster of his-asws saddle three times. Then he-asws turned to me and said: ‘If it was from Permissible (means), then the Salat in the clothes is Permissible, and it was from the Prohibited (means), then the Salat in the clothes would be Prohibited’. I ratified him-asws and said (believed) in his-asws merits and adhered with him-asws’’. [85]