The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Eleven: The Devil's Deception of the $Ujis
Section One
Series of Violations Committed by the $ujis in the
course of their Travels and (aimless) Wanderings
Abii Hamzah al-Sukkari said: "I went on a journey in reliance, and
one night when travelling I fell into a well, and found myself down
in it and unable to get out So I sat down there, and while I was
sitting two men stopped at the head of the well, one of whom said
to the other: Can we pass on and leave this in the path of Muslims
who go along? The other said: What can we do? I was about to call
to them when a voice called to me, saying: Do you rely on Us and
yet complain to others of the trial which We impose? So I kept silence,
and the two men went away and came back, bringing something
which they placed over the well so as to cover it. After some
period someone cleared the seal and let down his legs into the well
and asked me to hold on to his legs. It turned out to be a tiger and
he pulled me out of the well. Then a voice called to me, saying: Abii
Hamzah, we have saved thee from one trial by another, from one
thing which you fear (tiger) by another thing which you fear. "'
When he came out of the well he recited the verses.
In reverence for You, my love would hide,
Now need not show it, with You at my side.
Mysteriously You do Yourself display;
'Your hand shall hold Me,' You do seem to say.
I see You, and Your majesty alarms;
And then your tenderness all fear disarms.
To one whose death You are You give breath,
Your lover; strange companions, life and death!
There is a difference of opinion about the identity of the Abii
Hamzah who fell into the well. Abii