Ali b. Yaqtin

I said to Abi al-Hasan عليه السلام: Ali b. Yaqtin has sent me to you with a message – he asks that you supplicate for him, he [the Imam] said: concerning the hereafter? I said: yes, so he [the Imam] put his hand on his chest and then said: I guarantee for Ali b. Yaqtin that the fire will never touch him – ever.

I came out one year with a lot of wealth belonging to Abu Ibrahim عليه السلام [in my possession]. Ali b. Yaqtin had also entrusted me with a message asking his [the Imam’s] supplication, so when I finished attending to my duties and handed over the wealth to him – I said: may I be made your ransom, Ali b. Yaqtin requested me to ask you to supplicate for him, he عليه السلام asked: for the hereafter? I said: yes, so he [the Imam] put his hand on his chest and then said: I guarantee for Ali b. Yaqtin that the fire will never touch him.

I heard Abu al-Hasan al-Khurasani [al-Ridha] عليه السلام say: as for Ali b. Yaqtin then he left [this world] while his master was pleased with him – meaning by that Abu al-Hasan (i.e. al-Kadhim) عليه السلام

Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام said: of the felicities enjoyed by Ali b. Yaqtin is the fact that I remembered him [supplicated for him] at the Mawqif [the plains of Arafa in the Hajj].

his father Ali b. Yaqtin – may Allah have mercy on him – sent to his female slaves [to hand over to him whatever they possessed of wealth] such that he even carried away their gifts [given to them] by the one who sold them to him [their former master], then he sent to him [al-Kadhim] what he [the Imam] had enjoined on him of [collecting] their [al-Kadhim’s sons’ prospective wives’] dowries, and he added three thousand gold coins for the Walima [public lunch], so it all came to thirteen thousand gold coins in a single installment.

I said to him: I am fearful because of the supplication of Abi Abdillah عليه السلام against Yaqtin and his off-spring, so he [the Imam] said: O Aba al-Hasan [Ali b. Yaqtin] it is not as you think, verily the believer who arises from the back-bone [lineage] of a disbeliever is like the stone in a clay brick, when rain comes it washes away the clay [dissolves it to mud] but does not harm the stone in any way.