Al-Husayn ibn al-Hassan al-‘Alawi has said the following: “A man who was an informer for Ruz Hassani with another man with him once said to Ruz, ‘This man (al-Mahdi) , is out there. Money is collected for him. He has representatives in many places. They mentioned his representatives by their names in different areas. This news reached ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Sulayman, the Vizier. The Vizier decided to arrest these representatives. The Sultan said, ‘Find out. Where is this man? This is a serious matter.’ ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Sulayman then said, ‘We will arrest the representatives, the agents.’ The Sultan said, ‘No, you must send your undercover agents who should pose to them as devotees ready to pay their dues to their Imam. If they accept the funds then arrest them.’ The narrator has said that a message came out from the Holy Location (office of Imam al-Mahdi) to inform all the representatives not to accept any dues from anyone, deny knowing anything about the Imam and say that they have no information. A man who was an undercover agent came to Muhammad ibn Ahmad whom he did not know. The undercover agent spoke to him privately and said, ‘I have certain funds with me and I want them to be delivered to the Holy Location (office of Imam al-Mahdi).’ Muhammad said to him, ‘You have made a mistake. I do not know anything about it.’ He insisted and tried to show kindness and Muhammad denied having any knowledge of it. The spies spread to all places but the representatives would refuse to accept any funds because of the message that was delivered to them beforehand.” Source : Al-Kafi, volume 1 , H 1375, Ch. 125, h 30
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:00:00 +0000
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