16. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from one of our people from ‘Ubays ibn Hisham that ‘Umar al-Rummaniy narrated to from Fayd ibn al-Mukhtar the following.

“Once when I was in the presence of abu ‘Abdallah that abu al-Hassan Musa came and he was a young boy. I held and kissed him. Abu ‘Abdallah said, “You are the ark and he is the captain.” The narrator has said that he wen to perform Hajj next year and I had two thousand Dinars. I sent one thousand toabu ‘Abdallah and one thousand to him (abu al-Hassan). When went to see abu ‘Abdallah he said, “You have considered him equal to me.” I said, “I did so because of your words.” He then said, “I swear by Allah, I did not do so, in fact, Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has done it for him (abu al-Hassan Musa .”