I (Ismā‘īl b. Muḥammad) sat waiting for Abū Muḥammad (al-Ḥasan al-‘Askarī), peace be on him, at the side of the road. When he passed me, I complained to him of a need (which I had). I swore to him that I did not have a dirham, nor any more than it, nor had I had any breakfast or supper.
“You swear by Allāh as a liar,” he said. “You have buried two hundred dīnārs. However, I am not saying this as a way of not giving you anything. Servant, give him what you have with you.”
His servant gave me a hundred dīnārs. Then he came towards me and said to me:
“You will be denied the dīnārs which you buried at a time when your need for them will be much greater than at present.”
He, peace be on him, spoke the truth. In fact, I spent what he gave me. Hard necessity forced me to pay for something and the means of gaining provision (from the authorities) were closed to me. I dug for the dīnārs which I had buried and I did not find them. I looked. One of my sons knew where they were. He had taken them and fled. I could not do anything.
(Kitab Al Irshad, Chapter on Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.)Al-Kāfī, I, 509-10, tradition no. 14)