Hadith 37

room, as if there was an ocean (water) in it, and at the end of the room there was a straw mat. We knew that it had been upon the water, and above it was a man, most handsome of the people in appearance, standing, praying Salat. He-ajfj neither turned to us nor to anything from our causes. Ahmad Bin Abdullah went ahead in order to go through the room. He drowned (fell into) the water, and he did not cease to be restless until I extended my hand to him and rescued him, and extracted him, and there was unconsciousness upon him, and he remained such for a time. And my second companion repeated to do that deed, and he was faced with similar to that, and I remained stunned. I said to owner of the house, ‘The apologies are to Allah-azwj and to you-ajfj! By Allah-azwj! I did not know the news, nor to whom I am coming, and I am repenting to Allah-azwj’. But he-ajfj did not turn to anything from what we said nor turn from what he-ajfj was in. That terrified us and we left from him-ajfj, and Al-Mu’tazid was awaiting us, and he had sent a message to the doormen when we arrived to him to let us enter in whichever time we arrived in part of the night. We entered to see him. He asked us about the news. We narrated to him what we had seen. He said, ‘Woe be to you all! Did you meet anyone else before me, and a means flowed to anyone, or any word? ’ We said, ‘No’. He said, ‘I am benefitting from my ancestor (Al-Abbas)’, and he swore with the strongest of oaths for it that if this report were to reach him from any man, he would strike off our neck. So we did not have the courage to narrated with it except after his death’’. [49]