Hadith 41

s-ajfj animal and left. I do not know which road he-ajfj travelled, and I searched for him-ajfj right and left, but his-ajfj matter remained hidden unto me, and I increased in dread and refrained, returning to my soldiers, and I forgot the Hadeeth. When I reached Qum, and with me was the intention of battling the people, its inhabitants came out to me and they said, ‘We have been battling the ones coming to us due to their opposition to us! As for when you have arrived, there is no opposition between us and you. Enter the city and manage it as you see fit’. I stayed therein for a long time and attained wealth, more than what I had anticipated. Then the spies reported me to the sultan, and I was envied upon my prolonged stay and abundance of what I had attained. So I isolated and returned to Baghdad. I began with the house of the sultan, and I greeted and returned to my house. And there came to me among the ones who came to me, Muhammad Bin Usman Al-Amry. He went through the people until he leant upon my recliner. I was angered from that and did not cease to be seated for as long as he did not depart, and the people kept entering and exiting, and I was increased in anger. When the gathering had ended, he came near me and said, ‘There is a secret between me and you, so listen to it’. I said, ‘Speak! ’ He said, ‘The companion of the strong horse and the river says, ‘Have you been loyal with what you had promised us-ajfj? ’’ I remembered the Hadeeth and I shuddered from that and said, ‘I hear, and I obey! ’ I stood up and held his hand and opened the treasures. I did not cease to take a fifth of it, until I had taken a fifth of a thing I had forgotten, from what I had collected, and he left, and I did not doubt after that, and realised the matter. Thus, since I had heard this from my uncle Abu Abdullah, my objections from doubts have been removed’’. [53]