Hadith 12

and the remainder remain in my hands up to midnight, and there was a knock on the door. I asked him, ‘Who is it? ’ He said, ‘So and so Alawite’, and he was my neighbour. I permitted for him, so he entered. I said to him, ‘What is your concern? ’ He said, ‘I am hungry’. So, I gave him a Dinar from that. I entered to see my wife. She said, ‘What is that which is about you at this time? ’ I said, ‘A night comer had knocked on the door to me, being from the children of Rasool-Allah-saww, and there did not happen to be anything for me what I could feed him, so I gave him a Dinar. He took it and thanked me and left’. My wife went out and she was crying and saying, ‘Are you not ashamed that the like of this man came to you and you (only) gave him one Dinar, and you had known his being deserving of being given the whole of it? ’ Her speech fell in my heart and I arose to go behind him and gave him the bag. He took it and left. When I returned to the house, I regretted and said, ‘Now the news will arrive to Al-Mutawakkil (the caliph) and he abhors the Alawites, so he will kill me’. My wife said to me, ‘Do not fear and rely upon Allah-azwj and upon their grandfather-saww’. While we were like that when the door was knocked upon, and the torches were in the hands of the servants, and they were saying, ‘Answer the chieftess! ’ I stood up scared and every time I walked a little, I retraced from the messengers. I paused at a curtain of the chieftess and I heard her saying, ‘O Ahmad! May Allah-azwj Recompense you goodly and Recompense your wife. I was just asleep and Rasool-Allah-saww came to me (in the dream), and he-saww said: ‘May Allah-azwj Recompense you goodly and Recompense the wife of Ibn Al-Khazeyb goodly’. So, what is the meaning of this? ’
I narrated the narration to her, and she cried. She brought out Dinars and a bag, and she said, ‘This is for the Alawite, and this is for your wife, and this is for you’. And that equated to one hundred thousand Dirhams. I took the wealth and went on my way to the house of the Alawite. I knocked the door. He said from inside the house, ‘Give what is with you, O Ahmad! ’ And he came out, and he was weeping. I asked him about his weeping. He said, ‘When I entered my house, my wife said to me, ‘What is this which is with you? ’ I let her know. She said to me, ‘Arise with us until we pray Salat and supplicate for the chieftess, and for Ahmad and his wife’. So, we prayed Salat and supplicated. Then I slept. I saw Rasool-Allah-saww in the dream and he-saww said: ‘You have been thanked upon what they have done with you. Now, they will be coming to you with something. Accept it from them! ’ – This is the end of what I have extracted from the book ‘Kashf Al-Yaqeen’’. [16]