It has been reported that Imam was blessed with divine character and schoars maintain that they were reminded of divine qualities whenever they saw Imam.
Imam never piled up wealth and never made misuse of a single penny which was at his disposal as being great relgious authority in Qom and Najaf.
A massive number of Muslims used to follow Imam in relgious matters even before becoming the leader of Islamic Revolution.
Imam distributed all his properties and ancestoral land among the needy people and left behind nothing except a colleciton of books.
Extracted from a collection of memoirs about Imam