I (i.e. Abū Hāshim al-Ja‘fari) complained to Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. ‘Alī (al-‘Askarī), peace be on them, about my needs. He rubbed his whip on the ground. He took out from it an ingot which (was worth) five hundred dīnārs.
“Take it, Abū Hāshim,” he said, “and forgive us.”
(Kitab Al Irshad, Chapter on Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.)Al-Kāfī, I, 507, tradition no. 5)