Hadith 314

up in the sun. She came out and uncovered from her leg. There was mud in the ground, and this betrayer looked at her. He seduced her and she responded to him, and he was immoral with her, and betrayed you-asws! ’
The Indian fell and said, ‘Have mercy on me! I was mistaken and acknowledge with that’. Then the coat became like what it had been, and he-asws instructed him to wear it. When he wore it. When he wore it, it tightened in his throat and choked him until his face darkened. Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘O you coat! Loosen from him until he returns to his master, for he is foremost with him than we are! ’
The coat loosened, and the Indian said, ‘Allah-azwj! Allah-azwj regarding me and you-asws! If you-asws were to return the gift, I fear that he would dislike that upon me, for he is of far punishment’. He-asws said: ‘Become Muslim and I-asws shall give you the slave girl’. He refused. He-asws accepted the gifts and returned the slave girl. When he returned to the king, the answer returned to my-asws father-asws after months. In it was written, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. To Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws, the Imam-asws, from the king of India. As for after, I had gifted a slave girl to you, but you accepted from me what had no value for it, and you-asws returned the slave girl. My heart disliked that, and I know that the Prophets-as and children of the Prophets-as, there is discernment with them. I looked at the messenger with an eye of betrayal. So I invented a letter and let him know that it had come to me from you-asws of the betrayal, and I swore that nothing would save him except the truthfulness. So, he acknowledge with what he had done, and the slave girl (also) acknowledged with the like of that, and she informed with what had happened from the coat. I was astounded from that and I struck off her neck and his neck, and I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj Alone, there being no associate for Him-azwj, and that Muhammad-azwj is His-azwj servant and His-azwj Rasool-saww. And know that I am in the tracks of the letter’. I did not stay except for a small period until he left the kingdom of India and became a Muslim, and his Islam was good’’. [150]