Hadith 168

the Dirhams, so spend sixteen Dirhams from these upon yourself and make twenty-four to be a charitable donation on your behalf, and whatever is necessitated from you, and I-asws shall personally be in charge of the Salat upon you’. So when you see me (at the funeral), O Abu Ja’far, then conceal upon me-asws, for it would be more lasting for yourself’. Then he-asws said: ‘And return the wealth to their owners, and break these seals from the strings and look, have I-asws answered you about the issues or not, from before you had even come to us-asws with the collection? ’
I found the seals to be unbroken. I opened one of these from its middle and found written in it, ‘What does the scholar-asws said regarding a man who said: ‘I have vowed to Allah-azwj, I shall be liberating the slaves in ancient servitude (long time), and there was a group of slaves for him? ’
The answer was in his-asws handwriting: ‘He should liberate the one who was in his servitude from before six months, and the evidence upon that correctness of that are Words of the Exalted: And the moon, We Measure stages for it [36: 39] – the Verse, and the Hadeeth of the one who hasn’t six months (of service) for him’. And I broke the second seal and found what was under it, ‘What does the Scholar say regarding a man who said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I shall give in charity a lot of wealth! ’ So what should he give in charity? ’
The answer under it in his-asws handwriting was: ‘If the one who vowed was from the lords (owner) of sheep, then let him donate eighty-four sheep, and if he was from the owners of the camels, then let him donate eighty-four camels, and if he was from the lords (owners) of the Dirhams, then let him donate eighty-four Dirhams. And the evidence upon it are Words of the Exalted: Allah has Helped you in many places, [9: 25]. I-asws counted the places of Rasool-Allah-saww before the Revelation of that Verse, and these were eighty-four places’. I broke the third seal and found written under it, ‘What does the scholar-asws say regarding a man who exhumed a grave of a deceased and cut off the head of the deceased, and seized the shroud? ’
The answer in his-asws handwriting: ‘The thief of the shroud would be cut from beyond the notch, and he would be necessitated (fined) one hundred Dinars for cutting the head of the deceased, because he is made to be at the status of the foetus in the belly of its mother before the soul has been Blown into it. So we make twenty Dinars to be regarding the seed’ – the issue to its end. When he arrived at Khurasan, he found the ones he-asws had returned their wealth to them to have reneged to Al-Fat’hiyya (followers of Abdullah son of Ja’far-asws), and Shateeta was upon the truth. I delivered his-asws greetings to her and gave her his-asws pouch and his-asws garment (shroud). She lived like what he-asws had said. When Shateeta died, the Imam-asws came upon a camel of his-asws. When he-asws was free from her funeral, he-asws rode his-asws