Hadith 168

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub – Abu Ali Bin Rashid and others in a lengthy Hadeeth, ‘A group of Shias gathered at Neshapur and they chose Muhammad Bin Ali Al-Neshapuri and handed thirty thousand Dinars and fifty thousand Dirhams and bundle of garments, and Shateeta came with one correct Dirham and a garment from the weakening of her hands equating to four Dirhams. She said, ‘Allah-azwj is not Embarrassed from the truth’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I folded her Dirham, and they came with a collection wherein were questions (written out) filling seventy papers, there being one question in each paper, and there remained one blank paper for him-asws to write the answers under them, and every two papers were wrapped with two strings and sealed upon them with three seals, upon each string being a seal. And they said, ‘Hand over to the Imam-asws tonight and take (answers) from him in the morning. If you find the collection being of untouched seals, then break five from these and look, has he-asws answered the questions? If the seals are unbroken, then he-asws is the Imam-asws, rightful of the wealth, so hand it to him-asws, or else, so return our wealth to us’. I entered to see Al-Aftah, Abdullah son of Ja’far-asws, and tried him, and I came out from him saying, ‘Lord-azwj! Guide me to the even path! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘While I was standing, there I was with a slave saying, ‘Answer the one you intend! ’ He came with me to the house of Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws. When he-asws saw me, said to me: ‘Why did you despair, O Abu Ja’far, and you did not panic (by going) to the Jews and the Christians? To me-asws, for I-asws am the Divine Authority of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Guardian-asws. Didn’t Abu Hamza introduce you at the door of the Masjid of my-asws grandfather-saww? And I-asws have answered whatever is in the collection of questions with entirety of what you are needy to since yesterday, you have come to me-asws with it and with a Dirham of Shateeta, and its weight is one Dirham, and two Daniqs (units of weight) which is in the bag in which are four hundred Dirhams of Al-Wazoury, and the bag in which is a package of the two brothers of Al-Balkh’. He (the narrator) said, ‘My mind flew from his-asws words, and I came with what he-asws instructed me and placed that before him-asws. He-asws took a Dirham of Shateeta and her garment (woven by her hand), then he-asws faced me and said: ‘Allah-azwj is not Embarrassed from the truth, O Abu Ja’far! Deliver my-asws greetings and give her this pouch’, and these were forty Dirhams. Then he-asws said: ‘And I-asws am gifting to her a piece of cotton from my-asws own shroud from a stockyard of Sidon, stockyard of (Syeda) Fatima-asws, and it was woven by my-asws sister-as Haleema-as, daughter-as of Abu Abdullah Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al-Sadiq-asws’. Then he-asws said, ‘And say to her, ‘You shall be living for nineteen days from the arrival of Abu Ja’far and arrival of the (cotton) garment and