I hurried among the ones who hurried...

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. \n He (the narrator) said, \u2018I paused among the ones who paused, and I was breathing the groans. Then we came to the morning. Al-Mamoun sat for the consoling, then he stood up and walked to the place in which was our Master -asws . He said, \u2018Prepare the place for us for I want to wash him -asws .

I went near him and said to him what my Master -asws had said, about the washing and the enshrouding and the burial. He said to me, \u2018I will not object to that\u2019.

Then he said, \u2018It\u2019s your concern, O Harsama!\u2019 \n He (the narrator) said, \u2018I did not cease standing until I saw the tent to have been struck its back, and everyone in the house was below me, and I heard the exclamations of Takbeer, and the Oneness, and the Glorifications, clanging of the pots, and the pouring of water, and strong fragrance of perfume I had not smelt more aromatic than it.

\n He (the narrator) said, \u2018Behold, I was looking at Al-Mamoun who was overlooking upon me from one of the high places of his house. He shouted at me, O Harsama! Haven\u2019t you been claiming that the Imam -asws is such, no one can wash him except an Imam -asws like him?

So where is his -asws son -asws Muhammad Bin Ali -asws from him -asws , and he -asws is at the city of the Rasool -asws , and this one is at Toos, at Khurasan?\u2019 \n He (the narrator) said, \u2018I said to him, \u2018O commander of the faithful! We are saying that the Imam -asws , it is not obligatory that he -asws can only be washed by an Imam -asws like him -asws .

So if an exceeder were to exceed and washes the Imam -asws , it would not invalidate the Imamate of the Imam -asws due to the transgression of his washer, nor would it invalidate the Imamate of the Imam -asws who is to be after him -asws , by him -asws having been overcome upon the washing of his -asws father -asws .

\n And if Abu Al-Hassan Ali -asws Bin Musa Al-Reza -asws had been left at Al-Medina, his -asws son -asws Muhammad -asws would have washed him -asws apparently, and he -asws will not be washed now as well except and he -asws would be from where he -asws is hidden!\u2019 \n He (the narrator) said, \u2018He was silent from me. Then the tent was raised, and there I was with my Master -asws wrapped up in his -asws shroud.