Epilogue:
Subsequent post -mortem and eye-witness accounts show that the Imam had died of a heart attack. The expression on his face indicated that he had died of fright. Eye witnesses say that when they tried to remove the body, they met with some resistance. On moving his cloak they discovered that the imam had driven the stake through his cubbe/black robe into the soil and it fastenned it to the ground. When the imam tried to get up, the robe, with the stake through it pulled him and prevented him from standing up. The 'brave' imam thought otherwise. He thought that he was prevented from getting up by something sinister - perhaps somebody from the grave.
The teller of this story swears that it is true. The elder people around testify that the imam did in fact die in the cemetary.
So there.