42. It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Amir from abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Mas‘udiy from Hafs ibn al-Bakhtariy ibn ‘Umar al-Bajaliy who has said the following: “I once complained before abu ‘Abd Allah , against my worsening condition and mounting difficulties. He (the Imam) said,

‘When you arrive in al-Kufah, sell a piece of pillow from your home for ten dirham, invite your brothers, prepare food for them and ask them to pray for you to Allah.’ He (the narrator) has said, ‘I followed the instruction but it was not possible without selling the piece of pillow to prepare food as he (the Imam) had instructed me. So I sold the pillow and asked them to pray for me before Allah.’ He has said, ‘By Allah I waited only very little that one of my debtors came at the door and knocked at it. He made a settlement with me about a large amount of assets that I counted at ten thousand dirham.’ He has said that thereafter things began to come to him.’”