department of Dawat-e-Islami], Sayyiduna Imam ‘Abdur Rahman Bin ‘Ali Jawzi عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی narrated that Sayyiduna Khalaf Bin Tameem عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـعَـظِـیۡم has reported: Sayyiduna Abul Husayb Basheer عَـلَـيْـهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـدِیۡـر has stated, ‘I was a trader and by the grace of the most Merciful Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, I was very rich. I had all the comforts of a luxurious life and I would mostly stay in the cities of Iran. Once, my labourer told me that there was an un-shrouded and unburied dead body lying in an inn and there is no one to bury it.

Listening to that, I felt sorry for the helplessness of the dead person and with an aim of helping him I reached the inn in order to carry out the funeral rituals. I saw the dead body lying with some raw bricks placed on its belly. I put a sheet cloth over him; his fellows were sitting near the corpse. They told me that the man was very pious and a righteous person; they did not have enough money to arrange his funeral procession. After listening to that, I sent a man with money to purchase a shroud and another man to dig the grave and the rest of us started heating water to bathe him and preparing the bricks for the grave.

We were busy carrying out those activities when suddenly the dead body moved and sat, the bricks fell down from his belly then he started screaming in a very terrible voice, ‘Alas, the fire! Alas, the destruction! Alas, the destruction! Alas, the fire! Alas, the destruction! Alas, the destruction!’ His fellows escaped away seeing that terrible scene. But I mustered up the