[1] It is related in most of the sources concerning Zayn al-‘Abideen عليه السلام that people considered him stingy during his lifetime. Only at his death, provisions which used to be delivered at the doorsteps of many of the poor of Medina by a man with a covered face suddenly stopped appearing, people realized that he was the one who has been giving alms in secret. [Madelung, Ali Ibn al-Husayn, p. 850.]