It has been related by Allamah Seyyid Muhammed Al
Husseini Al Milaani, that Seyyid Abdullah Al Shiraazi
once told him that a young scholar in the city of
Najaf once came to the great Marja Seyyid Abil Hassan
Al Isfahani, and asked him to give him some money
as a help to get married.
The great Marja promised to help him the next day.
Now it so happened that within that day the great
Marja's son was assassinated while praying behind
his father in the congregational prayer. This incident
is famous and well known in Najaf.
The following day during the burial ceremony, the
great Marja was seen to be looking around as if searching
for someone. His followers thought that he was mentally
disturbed since it was an odd behavior potrayed by
the Marja as it was a time of poignant sadness for
the Seyyid at the sad demise of his son.
As he kept looking around they saw him calling somebody,
and found a young man approaching the Marja and they
then saw the Marja give a bag of gold coins to the
young man as he had promised to do so, and did not
forget this even though he was surrounded with grief.
(QASAS WAL KHAWATIR PAGE 157)
