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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT
30ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْعَلَوِيُّ قَالَ كَانَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ نُدَمَاءِ روزحسنى وَآخَرُ مَعَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ هُوَ ذَا يَجْبِي الامْوَالَ وَلَهُ وُكَلاءُ وَسَمَّوْا جَمِيعَ الْوُكَلاءِ فِي النَّوَاحِي وَأُنْهِيَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى عُبَيْدِ الله بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ الْوَزِيرِ فَهَمَّ الْوَزِيرُ بِالْقَبْضِ عَلَيْهِمْ فَقَالَ السُّلْطَانُ اطْلُبُوا أَيْنَ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ فَإِنَّ هَذَا أَمْرٌ غَلِيظٌ فَقَالَ عُبَيْدُ الله بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ نَقْبِضُ عَلَى الْوُكَلاءِ فَقَالَ السُّلْطَانُ لا وَلَكِنْ دُسُّوا لَهُمْ قَوْماً لا يُعْرَفُونَ بِالامْوَالِ فَمَنْ قَبَضَ مِنْهُمْ شَيْئاً قُبِضَ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ فَخَرَجَ بِأَنْ يَتَقَدَّمَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْوُكَلاءِ أَنْ لا يَأْخُذُوا مِنْ أَحَدٍ شَيْئاً وَأَنْ يَمْتَنِعُوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَيَتَجَاهَلُوا الامْرَ فَانْدَسَّ لِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ رَجُلٌ لا يَعْرِفُهُ وَخَلا بِهِ فَقَالَ مَعِي مَالٌ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُوصِلَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ مُحَمَّدٌ غَلِطْتَ أَنَا لا أَعْرِفُ مِنْ هَذَا شَيْئاً فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يَتَلَطَّفُهُ وَمُحَمَّدٌ يَتَجَاهَلُ عَلَيْهِ وَبَثُّوا الْجَوَاسِيسَ وَامْتَنَعَ الْوُكَلاءُ كُلُّهُمْ لِمَا كَانَ تَقَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِمْ.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
30. 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 عليه السلام 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 ‘Ubaydallah 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.” ‘Ubaydallah ibn Sulayman then said, “We will arrest the representatives, the agent.” The Sultan said, “No, you must send your undercover agents who would pose to them as devotees ready to pay their dues to their Imam. If they accepted the funds then arrest them.” The narrator has said that message came out from the holy location (office of Imam al-Mahdi عليه السلام to inform all the representatives not to accept any dues from anyone, deny knowing anything about the Imam عليه السلام 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 it to be delivered to the holy location (office of Imam al-Mahdi عليه السلام .” Muhammad said to him, “You have made a mistake. I do not know anything about it. He would insist and try to show kindness and Muhammad would deny having any knowledge of it. The spies spread to all places but the representatives refuse to accept any funds because of the message that was dilivered to them before hand.”
Source & scholarly assessments
Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 125, report 30
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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/200)
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī
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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/125/30. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.
Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/125/30. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.
