Hadith 39

on and met him in his house at Al-Hilla, he said to me, ‘That need has been fulfilled’. Abu Al-Abbas said, ‘And I did not narrate this Hadeeth to anyone before you since the Sheikh died, until now’. There had been nearly thirty years for him since he died. And from that is what I know of from the one whose truthfulness is real, among what he mentioned, he said, ‘I had been asking our Master-ajfj Al-Mahdi-ajfj, may the Salawaat of Allah‑azwj be upon him-ajfj to permit for me in being from the ones who is ennobled by his-ajfj companionship and his-ajfj service during the time of his-ajfj occultation, as an example with the one from his-ajfj servants and his-ajfj slaves, and his-ajfj special ones, and I did not notify anyone from the servants upon this purpose. He was present with me, this Al-Rasheed Al-Abbas Al-Wasit, whose mention has preceded, on the day of Thursday the twenty-ninth of Rajab of the year six hundred and thirty-five, and he said to me initiating from himself, ‘They have said to you, we have not aimed for except the compassion upon you. So if you were to settle yourself upon the patience, you shall achieve the purpose’. I said to him, ‘About whom are you saying this? ’ He said, ‘About our Master Al-Mahdi-ajfj, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-ajfj’. And from that is what I know from the ones whose narration and his truthfulness is real, he said, ‘I wrote a letter to our Master Al-Mahdi-ajfj, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him‑ajfj and upon his-ajfj pure forefathers-asws, including a number of important matters, and I asked for his-ajfj answer by his-ajfj own noble pen, about these issues, and I carried it with me to the noble basement at Surmanray. I made the letter to be in the basement. Then I feared upon it, so I took it with me, and it was the night of Friday, and I isolated in one of the chambers of the Holy Shrine. He (the narrator) said, ‘When it was nearly midnight, a servant entered hastily. He said, ‘Give me the letter. O Allah-azwj! ’ He said, and it is said, the doubt is from the reporter, ‘I sat down to purify for the Salat and was delayed to that. I went out but could not find the servant nor the one being served. And the purpose from the intended of this Hadeeth is that he-ajfj was notified upon the letter which I had not notified anyone from the mortals upon, and he-ajfj had sent his-ajfj servant seeking it. So that was a sign for Allah-azwj the Exalted and a miracle of his-ajfj. The one who considers would recognise that’’. [51]