I said...

I said, ‘I seek Refuge with Allah -azwj from opposing you -asws in any matter, O my Master -asws !’ Harsama said, ‘Then I went out crying, grieving. I did not cease to be like the seed upon a plate. No one knew what was within me except Allah -azwj the Exalted. Then Al-Mamoun summoned me, so I entered to see him. I did not cease to be standing until the day rose.

Then Al-Mamoun said, ‘Go, O Harsama, to Abu Al-Hassan -asws and convey the greetings from me, and say to him -asws , ‘Either come to us or we shall come to you -asws !’ If he -asws says to you: ‘But we -asws shall go to him’, then ask him -asws on my behalf to bring that forward’. He said, ‘I went to him -asws . When I emerged to him -asws , he -asws said to me: ‘O Harsama! Haven’t you memorised what I -asws had bequeathed to you with?’ I said, ‘Yes’.

He -asws said: ‘Bring my -asws slippers forward, for I -asws know what he has sent you with’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I brought his -asws slippers forward and he -asws walked to him. When he -asws entered the gathering, Al-Mamoun stood up to him -asws standing and hugged him -asws and kissed between his -asws eyes and seated him -asws to his side upon his throne and faced towards him -asws discussing with him -asws for a long time from the day.

Then he said to one of his slaves, ‘Bring the grapes and the pomegranates!’ Harsama said, ‘When I heard that, I had not capacity to be patient, and I saw the trembling to have presented in my body. I disliked for that to be manifested in me, so I returned backwards until I went out and threw myself in a place from the house. When it was near to midday, I sensed my Master -asws to have come out from his presence and return to his -asws house.

Then I saw the commander to have come out from the presence of Al-Mamoun with presenting the doctors and the companions. I said, ‘What is this (going on)?’ It was said to me, ‘An illness has presented to Abu Al-Hassan Ali -asws Bin Musa Al-Reza -asws ’. The people were in doubt, and I was upon certainty due to what I had known from it. He (the narrator) said, ‘When it was from the second third of the night, there was a loud shout, and I heard the noise from the house.

I hurried among the ones who hurried, and there we were with Al-Mamoun, uncovered of head, loosened of the trouser, standing by his -asws feet, lamenting and crying. He (the narrator) said, ‘I paused among the ones who paused, and I was breathing the groans. Then we came to the morning.