Muhammad b. Salih b. Muhammad al-Hamdani al-Wakil al-Dihqan et son père

2. [2/242] al-Kafi: Ali b. Muhammad from Muhammad b. Salih who said: When my father died and the matter [i.e. Wikala] devolved to me – I found to have been in his possession bills of exchange [given] by some people [instead of money] as part of the wealth owed to al-Gharim [i.e. the Twelfth Imam]. I wrote to him [the Imam] informing him of that so he wrote: ‘Seek them out and demand payment from them’. All of them paid me except a single individual who had a bill worth four hundred gold coins. I went to him to request it [the amount] but he put me off [sought postponement] while his son made light of me and ridiculed me. I complained to his father but he said: What was that? I grabbed his beard, took hold of him by his legs and dragged him to the middle of the house and began kicking him quite a number of times. His son came out shouting for help from the people of Baghdad saying: A Qummi Rafidhi has killed my father! A large number of them gathered around me so I got on my horse and said [sarcastically]: Well done O people of Baghdad! You side with the oppressor against an oppressed stranger! I am a man from the people of Hamadan and of the Ahl al-Sunnah, this one is ascribing me to the people of Qum and Rafdh as a pretext to usurp my rights and wealth. He said: they [the crowd] turned against him and wanted to enter his shop until I quietened them down. The man whose bill of exchange it was sought me out and swore at the point of divorce that he will return the wealth to me if I could take them away from him.

Quand mon père est décédé et que la responsabilité m'est revenue, il avait des dettes envers les gens provenant de biens d'un débiteur. J'ai écrit pour lui demander conseil, et il a répondu : "Réclame-les et exige-les d'eux." Les gens ont réglé leurs dettes sauf un homme qui lui devait quatre cents dinars. Je suis allé le voir pour réclamer la dette, mais il m'a ignoré et son fils m'a insulté. J'ai alors porté plainte à son père, qui m'a demandé ce qui s'était passé. J'ai alors saisi sa barbe, attrapé sa jambe, l'ai traîné au milieu de la cour et l'ai frappé à de nombreuses reprises. Son fils est sorti en criant à l'aide aux habitants de Bagdad, disant : "Un Rafidi a tué mon père !" Les gens se sont rassemblés autour de moi, mais je suis monté sur ma monture et leur ai dit : "Honte à vous, habitants de Bagdad, de soutenir l'oppresseur contre l'étranger opprimé. Je suis un homme de Hamadan, des gens de la Sunna, et on me lie aux gens de Qom et aux Rafidis pour me dépouiller de mes droits et de mon argent." Ils se sont alors tournés contre lui et ont voulu entrer dans sa maison jusqu'à ce qu'il les apaise et promette de me rembourser ma dette, ce qu'il a fait pour les éloigner de lui.