24. It is narrated from al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Ash‘ari who has said the following. “The letters of abu Muhammad would come about the matters related to al-Junayd, who killed Fars, abu al-Hassan and others. When he passed away letters about the issues related to abu al-Hassan and his friend continued coming from (Imam al-Mahdi but there was no mention of al-Junayd. I became depressed about it. Thereafter, the news of the death of al-Junayd reached us.”