A number of our people has narrated has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Sinan from Masma' Kirdin al-Basri who has said the following. "I used to eat one meal in twenty four hours.
I would ask permission to see abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) at such time that I would expect that their table cloth is collected and they have fished their meal. When I would arrive he would ask to return
the table cloth.
I would find food in it but it would not harm me while if I would eat with others again I could not do so and it would become very difficult for me to sleep because of gases. I complained
about it before the Imam (a.s.) and said that if I would eat from your table it does not harm me.
He said, "O abu Sayyar, it is because you eat from the table of the virtuous people. Angels shake hands with them on their furnishings." The narrator has said that I then asked, "Do they
(angels) appear to you?" He has said, "The Imam (a.s.) wiped his hand over one of his children and said, 'They are more kind to our children than we ourselves are."
H 1024, Ch. 97, h 2
Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Khalid from Muhammad ibn al-Qasim from al-Husayn ibn abu al-'Ala' who has said the following. "Once Abu 'Abdallah
(a.s.) said, 'O Husayn, tapping his hand on a cushion in the house, saying, 'Cushions on which for a long time angels have been leaning and perhaps we pick up some of their fluff
around."
H 1025, Ch. 97, h 3
Muhammad has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam who hassaaid that Malik ibn 'Atiyya al-Ahmasi narrated to him from abu Hamza al-Thumali who has said the
following.
"Once I went to see Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) and I became confounded in the room for an hour then I went inside the house while he was picking up things and would give to someone behind the
curtain. I then said, may Allah take my soul in service for your cause, What was that thing that I saw you picking up?"
The Imam (a.s.) said, "The fuzz from the angels when they come to meet us and we use it amuse our children." I then said, may Allah take my soul in service for your cause, do they they come
to you?" The Imam (a.s.) said, "O abu Hamza, they become crowded over our furnishings."
H 1026, Ch. 97, h 4
Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan from Muhammad ibn Aslam from Ali ibn abu Hamza who has said the following. "I heard abu al-Hassan (a.s.) say, 'Every angels that Allah
sends down for a task that angel first begins with meeting the Imam to present the task to him. The presence of Imam, Leader with Divine Authority is the scene of great mix of the angels from
Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High."
