منصور بن بزرج

“I once heard abu al-Hassan (a.s.), saying, ‘Washing the head with lotus tree leaves attracts sustenance with a strong attraction.’”

“I once said to abu al-Hassan, Musa (a.s.), when I was standing, ‘I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause, my partner had a wife. He divorced her and became stranger to her then he wanted to go back to her and she said, ‘No, by Allah, I will never marry you until you make it binding on yourself from Allah not to divorce me and not to marry a second wife.’ He (the Imam) asked, ‘Did he do so?’ I replied, ‘Yes, he did, I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘What he has done is terrible, ignoring the fact that what may fall in his heart in the middle of the night or day.’ He (the Imam) then said, ‘Now, however, say to him to complete the condition for the woman because the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has said, “Muslims stand by their conditions.’” I then said, ‘I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause, I have doubts about the words (of the stipulation).’ He (the Imam) said, ‘He is ‘Imran who meets you, is he not with you in al-Madinah?’ I replied, ‘Yes, that is true.’ He (the Imam) then said, ‘Tell him to write it and send it to me.’ ‘Imran afterwards came to us and we wrote them to him (the Imam) and there was no addition in it or reduction. He came back and met with me in the market of flours and touched my shoulder saying, ‘He (the Imam) says Salam (the phrase of offering greeting of peace) to you and says to you to tell the man to stand by his condition.’”