With his knowledge and patience He will stress God's covenant with the people.

With his knowledge and patience He will stress God's covenant with the people.” Al-Sowly said, “And some people have ascribed this to my paternal uncle - Ibrahim ibn Abbas - but no such thing has been narrated for me about him. I neither accept nor will I reject what has been narrated for me or what I have not heard. However, the following poem was undoubtedly composed by my paternal uncle - Ibrahim ibn Abbas: The deeds of just men are just witnesses for their doers.

O yes, they have some considerable amount of new wealth That is not at all similar to what they had before. They[^4] give you[^5] only one percent of your own wealth, Yet they mention it as if they are doing you a favor. Whoever eulogizes your enemies, has not eulogized God. You are nobler than your eighth-generation cousin (al-Ma’mun) Just as your forefathers were nobler than his forefathers.” Al-Sowly said, “I found these verses written in my father's notebook in his own handwriting.

My father used to say that his brother had recited these poems and said that our uncle had composed them about Ali[^6]. There is a note in the margin of one of the pages of that notebook stating, ‘What is meant by eighth-generation cousin is Al-Ma’mun, since both Imam Al-Ridha’ (a.s.) and Al-Ma’mun were eighth generation descendants of Abdul Muttalib.” وَاللَّهِ ما نَقَصَ الدَّرُّ، لكِن عَلَىّ وِرْدٌ مِنْ صَلاتِي وَتَسْبِيحِي، وَقَدْ نَقَصَ مُنْذُ وَلَدْتُ.

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