Suddenly, I saw him cut through the ranks and come toward me, saying: "I am that one."

Yahya continued: 'I saw him the next day riding a jet-black horse with a golden saddle. I said to myself: "Is this the one of whom they claim that when wealth comes from Khorasan, he knows its amount before it is counted, and its weight before it is weighed? And that he says to his servant: 'Go now, you will meet a man with such-and-such description, carrying such-and-such amount of money, containing such-and-and-such amount of counterfeit coins,' and that he knows the hidden things before they manifest before him?"'

Again, he cut through the ranks, came to me, and said: "I am that one." I replied: 'I have believed and you have spoken the truth.' Thus, the curse of Al-Hasan al-Akhir upon him was a mercy, just as it was upon Abu al-Khattab; and he is [indeed] Abu al-Khattab."

[163] And it was narrated by Abu al-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Sadaqah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: Abu ‘Abdullah al-Khusani (may Allah ennoble his station) narrated to me, from Mahmud ibn al-Hasan al-Shashi,