Hadith 140

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported by Ibrahim Bin Al-Hassan Bin Rashid, from Ibn Yaqteen who said, ‘I was standing in the presence of (the caliph) Haroun Al-Rasheed, when gifts of a king of Rome came to him, and in it was a black brocade shield embroidered with the gold, I had not seen better than it. He saw me looking at it, so he gifted it to me, and I sent it to Abu Ibrahim (7th Imam-asws). And more than nine months passed upon it, and one day I left from the presence of Haroun after having had lunch in front of him. When I entered my house, my servant stood up to me, the one who took my clothes upon his hands with a towel upon his hands, and a thin letter, its seal was (still) wet. He said, ‘A man came to me with this just now’. He said, ‘Give it to your master the moment he enters! ’
I broke open the letter and there, it was a letter of my Master-asws Abu Ibrahim (7th Imam-asws) and in it was: ‘O Ali! This is a time of your need to the armour, and I-asws am dispatching it to you’. I uncovered an end of towel away from it, and I saw it and recognised it. And a servant of Haroun entered to see me without permission. He said, ‘Answer commander of the faithful! ’ I said, ‘Which event has occurred? ’ He said, ‘I don’t know’. I rode and entered to see him, and in his presence was Umar Bin Yazeed standing in front of him. He said, ‘What happened to the armour which I had gifted to you? ’ I said, ‘Commander of the faithful has conferred a lot of armours unto me and other (things), so about which one are you asking me? ’
He said, ‘The black brocade armour, the Roman, the (embroidered with) gold’. I said, ‘What can I possibly do with it. I tend to wear it during times, and I pray Cycles of Salat in it, and I had supplicated with it during my leaving from the house of commander of the faithful right now to wear it’. Umar Bin Rabie looked at me. He said, ‘Tell him to present it! ’ I sent my servant, and he came with it. When he (Rasheed) saw it, he said, ‘O Umar! It is not befitting that you transfer to me anything after this’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He ordered with fifty thousand Dirhams being for me. I carried it along with the armour to my house’. Ali Bin Yaqteen said, ‘And the accuser was a son of an uncle of mine. Allah-azwj Blackened his face and Belied him, and the Praise is for Allah-azwj’’. [155]