The killer left his house fleeing from Baghdad. Suddenly, a non-Arab Dailamite came to the host's house after that, seized him while his wife looked on, laid him upon the ground, and gouged out his eyes with a knife; he took nothing of his wealth, but left him and departed. The man used to tell people this regarding himself, saying: "This is the recompense for one who turns away a believer." So beware of renouncing believers or turning them away, and console your brother even if with a date or a raisin if you are capable of nothing else.

(633) From Lord Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Rifa’i, who said: We had a brother whose house was a residence for the believers; he possessed worldly means and was in a state of ease. One in whom there is no good said to him: "You are impoverishing yourself by what you do, and those who liken themselves to this matter [faith] and the claimants to it are many."

The man then closed his door and refrained from much of what he used to do and how he treated his brothers. A poor man came to his house seeking permission to enter, but the doorkeeper said to him: "That which you used to hear regarding the owner of this house has changed; his door is closed, and he does not speak except to his associates." The poor man said: "O you, evening has come and I know no one in this town toward whom I can be guided. If you see fit to let me sleep by you in the vestibule of the house, then when morning breaks I shall depart—so do so, for I am a stranger."

The doorkeeper took pity on him and brought him into the vestibule. Night darkened, so he closed the door of the house, lit his lamp, and prepared his bedding. The doorkeeper was one-eyed and wore a bandage over his eye; he untied it from his eye. When morning broke, the man asked him: "How long has it been since you were robbed of your eye?" He replied: "Four years." The man passed his hand over it, and it returned to a state of health. The doorkeeper looked but did not see the man; he remained terrified and entered upon the owner of the house. When the owner saw him, he marveled at him.